单词 | sapped |
释义 | sappedadj. Undermined. Also, eroded or broken off by glacial sapping. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > glaciation > [adjective] > specific processes plucked1893 ice-scoured1897 quarried1909 transfluent1951 sapped1972 1716 J. Gay Trivia iii. 78 Her sap'd Foundations. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. liii. 95 Here were the rotten beam, the sinking arch, the sapped and mouldering wall. 1972 J. G. McCall in C. Embleton Glaciers & Glacial Erosion xi. 220 The general lack of any further frost action on the ‘sapped’ blocks of rocks which formed the moraine and screes in the area. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1716 |
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