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Sopping vs Sapping - What's the difference?

sopping | sapping |

As verbs the difference between sopping and sapping

is that sopping is while sapping is .

As an adjective sopping

is soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.

As a noun sapping is

the act by which something is sapped or depleted.

sopping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
    • By now he was sopping wet so there was no point in putting on his hat.

    Verb

    (head)

    • sapping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
  • * (Joseph Story)
    • [The government] may be destroyed by popular violence, or the madness of party, or the deeper sappings of corruption.