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snapping

English

Verb

snapping

  1. present participle of snap

Noun

snapping (plural snappings)

  1. The sound or action of a snap.
  2. The act of snapping at, or speaking sharply to, somebody.
    • 1846-48, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
      There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

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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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