DRUB (drubbed, drubbing)

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Irregular inflected forms: drubbed    , drubbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does drub mean? 

• DRUB (verb)
  The verb DRUB has 1 sense:

1. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

  Familiarity information: DRUB used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRUB (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick; thrash

Context example:

We licked the other team on Sunday!

Hypernyms (to "drub" is one way to...):

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)

Verb group:

flail; lam; thrash; thresh (give a thrashing to; beat hard)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to drub his opponent

Derivation:

drubbing (a sound defeat)

 Context examples 

I've no manner of doubt that we can drub them, if you choose.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Wolf Larsen treasured against them the attempt on his life and the drubbing he had received in the forecastle; and morning, noon, and night, and all night as well, he devoted himself to making life unlivable for them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It took its rise out of the tittle-tattle and tale-bearing which had been the cause of Johnson’s beating, and from the noise we heard, and from the sight of the bruised men next day, it was patent that half the forecastle had soundly drubbed the other half.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)