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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To thrash with a stick.
  2. v. To instill forcefully: drubbed the lesson into my head.
  3. v. To defeat soundly.
  4. v. To berate harshly.
  5. v. To stamp (the feet).
  6. v. To beat the ground; stamp.
  7. v. To pound; throb.
  8. n. A blow with a heavy instrument, such as a stick.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To beat with a stick; cudgel; belabor; thrash; beat in general.
  2. n. A blow with a stick or cudgel; a thump; a knock.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to beat (someone or something) with a stick
  2. v. to forcefully teach something
  3. v. to defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush
  4. v. to criticize harshly; to excoriate

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
  2. n. A blow with a cudgel; a thump.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

Etymologies

  1. 1625, originally a dialectal word (Kent) drab, variant of drop, dryp, drib ("to beat"), from Middle English drepen (preterit drop, drap, drape ("to strike, kill")) from Old English drepan ("to strike"), from Proto-Germanic *drepanan (“to beat, bump, strike, slay”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhrebh- (“to strike, crush, kill”). Akin to Old Frisian drop ("a blow, beat"), Old High German treffan ("to hit"), Old Norse drepa ("to strike, slay, kill"). Compare also dub. More at drape. (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps Arabic dialectal ḍrab, from ḍaraba, to hit; see Ṣ́rb in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. thrash
  1. cudgel
  1. thump
  1. beam

hypernyms (6)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. vanquish
  1. shell
  1. beat
  1. beat out
  1. trounce
  1. crush

same context (11)

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  2. bagwig
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  2. basket work
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  2. jujube
  1. pawpaw
  2. basketry
  1. star

rhymes (19)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Cub
  2. Hub
  3. bub
  1. chubb
  2. club
  3. cub
  1. dub
  2. grub
  3. hub
  1. nub
  2. pub
  3. rub
  1. scrub
  2. shrub
  3. snub
  1. strub
  2. stub
  3. sub
  1. tub

reverse dictionary (17)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. wallop
  2. wap
  3. bepommel
  1. clapperclaw
  2. drepe
  3. curry
  1. thump
  2. paik
  3. scutch
  1. thrash
  2. whala
  3. bang
  1. beat
  2. best
  3. firk
  1. tew
  2. thresh

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  • yarb Then the rain they had hoped for came, with scattered drops as big as acorns slapping down, followed by a drubbing deluge.

    - William Steig, Farmer Palmer's Wagon Ride Sep 20, 2008

  • brtom For I prophecy that the Reformation will make way in France when Moab is made meek by being well drubbed by the English. (from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart) Dec 31, 2007

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