different between sipping vs sapping

sipping

English

Verb

sipping

  1. present participle of sip

Noun

sipping (plural sippings)

  1. The act of taking a sip.
    • 1852, Theophilus Thompson, Annals of Influenza Or Epidemic Catarrhal Fever in Great Britain from 1510 to 1837 (page 107)
      But, in general, a few days' confinement, abstinence from flesh meat, and frequent sippings of some tepid pectoral drink, sufficed for the cure.

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  • pipings

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sapping

English

Verb

sapping

  1. present participle of sap

Noun

sapping (plural sappings)

  1. The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
    • December 22, 1821, Joseph Story, Address Delivered Before the Members of the New-England Society, in Charleston
      [The government] may be destroyed by popular violence, or the madness of party, or the deeper sappings of corruption.
  2. The act of excavating trenches.

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