drubbing
11drubbing — drub|bing [ˈdrʌbıŋ] n [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: drub to hit (17 20 centuries), probably from Arabic daraba] an occasion when one team easily beats another team in sport ▪ Ireland gave England a drubbing at Twickenham …
12drubbing — /ˈdrʌbɪŋ/ (say drubing) noun 1. a beating. 2. a decisive defeat: * If we ve played better I can t remember, Ryan said of his team s nine try drubbing. –aap news, 2000 …
13drubbing — noun see drub …
14drubbing — /drub ing/, n. 1. a beating; a sound thrashing. 2. a decisive, humiliating defeat, as in a game or contest. [1640 50; DRUB + ING1] * * * …
15drubbing — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The act of defeating or the condition of being defeated: beating, defeat, overthrow, rout, thrashing, vanquishment. Informal: massacre, trimming, whipping. Slang: dusting, licking. See WIN …
16drubbing — drub|bing [ drʌbıŋ ] noun count INFORMAL a defeat in which someone loses very easily …
17drubbing — drub·bing || drÊŒbɪŋ n. sound defeat; act of thrashing; act of beating with repeated blows drÊŒb v. beat up; defeat …
18drubbing — n. Beating, flogging, thrashing, cudgelling, caning, pounding, flagellation …
19drubbing — n beating, thrashing, bludgeoning, work over, Law. battery; clubbing, caning, bastinado, flogging; walloping, pummeling, fustigation, pounding, thumping, stomping; whipping, defeat, knockout, trip to dreamland; trouncing, vanquishment, loss …
20drubbing — drub•bing [[t]ˈdrʌb ɪŋ[/t]] n. 1) a beating; sound thrashing 2) spo a decisive, humiliating defeat, as in a game or contest • Etymology: 1640–50 …
