Words similar to sapped

Example sentences for: sapped

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A profile condemns the coach-choking (and uncoachable) Latrell Sprewell for crushing the New York Knicks' NBA championship hopes: His nihilism and selfishness have sapped his teammates' will to win.
And this has particularly sapped the vigor and strength of the black intellectual, his or her incisiveness swallowed in a sea of bathetic race promoting.
So we're soft on them because your side has done a brilliant job at spinning the terrors of the far left, and because we have slowly acquiesced to an increasingly powerful state which has sapped Americans of their outrage at its rapaciousness.
The coffee business is fine, but earnings were sapped by investments in online ventures, including a retail store and an magazine.