| 单词 | life-sapping |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife-sapping life-sapping adj. ΚΠ 1817 Sporting Mag. 49 67/1 A man or horse may slowly get the better of the obstinate effects of having swallowed life-sapping simples. 1928 A. Huxley in Sunday Disp. 16 Dec. 12/6 No people, it seems to me, has suffered more than the English from that life-sapping malady of too much machinery. 2003 G. Burn North of Eng. Home Service (2004) iii. 87 Ray could sometimes imagine he was seeing..uncles who worked as lightermen..and laboured for hours in the life-sapping heat and steam. < as lemmas |
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