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[ druhb-ing ] / ˈdrʌb ɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR drubbing ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna beating; a sound thrashing. a decisive, humiliating defeat, as in a game or contest. Origin of drubbingFirst recorded in 1640–50; drub + -ing1 Words nearby drubbingdrowsy, DrPH, Dr. Strangelove, dr. t., drub, drubbing, Drucilla, drudge, drudgery, drudgework, drug Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for drubbingHer Food Network-colleague Guy Fieri opened a new restaurant and Times Square and received a drubbing in The New York Times. Chopped? Amanda Freitag Hopes Not|Tim Teeman|February 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST She took a drubbing, fielding accusations of self-aggrandizement from the financial press and fans alike. Can Suze Orman Save America?|Adam Auriemma|November 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST The Republican senator took a drubbing in his own state from Democratic strategist Pat Caddell. Burn! Sen. Lindsey Graham, ‘Leader of the Surrender Caucus’|David Catanese|September 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST After the drubbing I gave James Turrell's Guggenheim mess, it's a pleasure to have found a Light And Space work I can get behind. Art at the Scrim-age Line|Blake Gopnik|July 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And conversely, how will Obama recover from this creaming, this drubbing at the hands of a man he despises? Was That Obama’s Dud Double Who Lost the Debate to Romney?|Tunku Varadarajan|October 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST And even they gone—still the self undimmed, undaunted, that took its drubbing like a man.' The Return|Walter de la Mare Now and then a drubbing, but who pays any attention to such things! Luna Benamor|Vicente Blasco Ibez I don't think they're that bad, sir; they were meaning a bit of a scare, and maybe a drubbing or the likes. Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880|Various And the commandant allowed this drubbing to stand as a sort of instalment of punishment when the man was brought up for trial. The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2)|John West But, then, what is to become of history, and the drubbing of the French? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850|Various
British Dictionary definitions for drubbing
nouna beating, as with a stick, cudgel, etc a comprehensive or heavy defeat, esp in a sporting competition Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to drubbingbeating, rout, thrashing, whipping, trouncing, dusting, licking, slaughter, walloping |