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Gergan came over the Kharzong glacier on purpose to bring me a prayer-wheel; Lob-sang and Tse-ring-don-drub, the hospital assistants, made me a tent carpet of yak's hair cloth, singing as they sewed; and Joldan helped to secure transport for the twenty-two days' journey to Kylang.

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  1. transitive verb To thrash with a stick.
  2. transitive verb To instill forcefully: drubbed the lesson into my head.
  3. transitive verb To defeat soundly.
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  • If the Wisconsin Halo League pans out - and if his new team is good enough to drub the local competition - Bishop could find himself at the "big show" again. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • They opened Pac-10 play with a 30-point rout at Stanford, then bounced back from a loss at Cal to drub Oregon State by 31. —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
  • "You've just got to block all that stuff out," Robertson said Monday night, after he helped the Broncos drub Oakland 41-14. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Sure, he was able to drub Quintana and Kolle in consecutive fights as early as the first round, but that seemed to do very little in the minds of those out there who continue to believe that Williams is made to order for any fighter who has a decent punch output and better than average power. —  East Side Boxing
  • The Trojans scored 10 runs in the first inning and seven more in the second to drub the Cardinals.
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Perhaps Arabic dialectal ḍrab, from ḍaraba, to hit; see Ṣ́rb in Semitic roots.

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  1. apparently orig. dial. form (= English dial. (Kent) drab for *drob), a variant or secondary form of drop, *drep (English dial, dryp and drib: see drib), beat, from Middle English drepen, (preterit drop, drap, drape), strike, kill, from Anglo-Saxon drepan (preterit * dræp, drep, past participle dropen, drepen), strike, = Low German drapen, dräpen = Old High German treffan, Middle High German G. treffen, hit, touch, concern, = Icelandic drepa = Swedish dräpa = Danish dræbe, kill, slay (cf. Swedish drabba, hit).
  2. from drub, v.
 

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