drub

drub

D0399300 (drŭb)v. drubbed, drub·bing, drubs v.tr.1. To thrash with a stick.2. To instill forcefully: drubbed the lesson into my head.3. a. To defeat soundly.b. To berate harshly.4. To stamp (the feet).v.intr.1. To beat the ground; stamp.2. To pound; throb.n. A blow with a heavy instrument, such as a stick.

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[Perhaps Arabic dialectal ḍrab, from ḍaraba, to hit; see ṣ́rb in Semitic roots.]

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drub′ber n.

drub

(drʌb) vb (tr) , drubs, drubbing or drubbed1. to beat as with a stick; cudgel; club2. to defeat utterly, as in a contest3. to drum or stamp (the feet)4. to instil with force or repetition: the master drubbed Latin into the boys. na blow, as from a stick[C17: probably from Arabic dáraba to beat]

drub

(drʌb)

v. drubbed, drub•bing,
n. v.t. 1. to beat with a stick or the like; flog; thrash. 2. to defeat decisively, as in a game or contest. 3. to drive as if by flogging: Grammar was drubbed into our heads. v.i. 4. to pound or drum. n. 5. a blow with a stick or the like. [1625–35] drub′ber, n.

drub

Past participle: drubbed
Gerund: drubbing

Imperative
drub
drub

Present
I drub
you drub
he/she/it drubs
we drub
you drub
they drub

Preterite
I drubbed
you drubbed
he/she/it drubbed
we drubbed
you drubbed
they drubbed

Present Continuous
I am drubbing
you are drubbing
he/she/it is drubbing
we are drubbing
you are drubbing
they are drubbing

Present Perfect
I have drubbed
you have drubbed
he/she/it has drubbed
we have drubbed
you have drubbed
they have drubbed

Past Continuous
I was drubbing
you were drubbing
he/she/it was drubbing
we were drubbing
you were drubbing
they were drubbing

Past Perfect
I had drubbed
you had drubbed
he/she/it had drubbed
we had drubbed
you had drubbed
they had drubbed

Future
I will drub
you will drub
he/she/it will drub
we will drub
you will drub
they will drub

Future Perfect
I will have drubbed
you will have drubbed
he/she/it will have drubbed
we will have drubbed
you will have drubbed
they will have drubbed

Future Continuous
I will be drubbing
you will be drubbing
he/she/it will be drubbing
we will be drubbing
you will be drubbing
they will be drubbing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been drubbing
you have been drubbing
he/she/it has been drubbing
we have been drubbing
you have been drubbing
they have been drubbing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been drubbing
you will have been drubbing
he/she/it will have been drubbing
we will have been drubbing
you will have been drubbing
they will have been drubbing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been drubbing
you had been drubbing
he/she/it had been drubbing
we had been drubbing
you had been drubbing
they had been drubbing

Conditional
I would drub
you would drub
he/she/it would drub
we would drub
you would drub
they would drub

Past Conditional
I would have drubbed
you would have drubbed
he/she/it would have drubbed
we would have drubbed
you would have drubbed
they would have drubbed

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

drub - beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"lick, clobber, cream, bat, thrashbeat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"flail, thrash, lam, thresh - give a thrashing to; beat hard

drub

verb1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows:assail, assault, baste, batter, beat, belabor, buffet, hammer, pound, pummel, smash, thrash, thresh.Informal: lambaste.Slang: clobber.Idiom: rain blows on.2. To render totally ineffective by decisive defeat:annihilate, crush, overpower, overwhelm, smash, steamroller, thrash, trounce, vanquish.Informal: massacre, wallop.Slang: clobber, cream, shellac, smear.3. To criticize harshly and devastatingly:blister, excoriate, flay, lash, rip into, scarify, scathe, scorch, score, scourge, slap, slash.Informal: roast.Slang: slam.Idioms: burn someone's ears, crawl all over, pin someone's ears back, put someone on the griddle, put someone on the hot seat, rake over the coals, read the riot act to.

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