Sapping
Trying
Trying adjective - Difficult to endure.
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It also could be that the One Ring was sapping him like it did to Gollum, And was trying harder and harder to sap his strength away to keep itself away from Mount Doom.
Source: I'm Having Soul Pains - The main lamp doesn't turn on, because of the insane sentient space probe that's trapped in a cave under the lighthouse is sapping its power while trying to figure out how to go home.
Source: Slow Electricity
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