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Sap (Verb)

Deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength".

Verbs of buying, selling, owning.

Prolonged illness sapped her energy, leaving her feeling frail and weak.
Their excessive spending sapped their financial resources and put them into debt.
The long drought sapped the life from the parched earth, leaving it dry and barren.
Continually working long hours without a break began to sap her mental and physical health.
Their continuous overspending sapped their small emergency fund, leaving them vulnerable to unexpected expenses.

Excavate the earth beneath.

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The miners accidentally created a tunnel that would sap the ground beneath the nearby building's foundation.
Erosion from the nearby river began to sap the bank of the earth beneath the house.
Years of water running through the old mine shafts had sapped the earth beneath it, creating a cavern.
Excavators feared the construction site was so excavated that vibrations from the equipment would sap the weak foundations further.
The removal of the earth beneath would eventually sap support from the ancient wooden pillars in the medieval church.