Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A severe thrashing.
- n. A total defeat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cudgeling; a sound beating.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sound defeat
- n. the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
Examples
“He said what is important from his perspective is that Republicans, especially in the wake of what he called the drubbing that Republicans got in the election, that there be a fresh face.”
“Here's the reason Obama is so serene about his party taking a midterm drubbing: "If Democrats lose control of one or both houses, Obama will have an easier time in 2012, just as Bill Clinton used Newt Gingrich as the foil for his 1996 reelection campaign.”
“The midterm drubbing for the Democrats masks the many encouraging auguries for the president”
The Guardian: Why Barack Obama is looking good for a second term in 2012
“Apparently, back in 1987, the original Metal Gear was an MSX2 exclusive, because Konami wanted to support the struggling underdog system as it was getting a drubbing from the Famicom.”
“For a man who said he had to " take direct responsibility" for voter frustration that lead to the 2010 mid-term drubbing and that Americans are " tired of the talk," President Obama sure does spend a lot of time blaming everyone else for the results of his leadership.”
“Obama is rebounding from his party's midterm drubbing with the kind of lame-duck victories any White House would want.”
“Obama is rebounding from his party's midterm drubbing with the kind of lame-duck victory list any White House would want: a tax deal, a landmark repeal of the ban on openly gay military service and the prospect of a major nuclear treaty with Russia.”
“And with that, the president - seemingly a much different president from the one who faced the American people the morning after his party's midterm drubbing - left for a 10-day vacation in Hawaii with his family.”
“And with that, the president - seemingly a much different president than the one who faced the American people the morning after his party's midterm drubbing - left for a 10-day vacation in Hawaii with his family.”
“President Barack Obama is rebounding from his party's midterm drubbing with the kind of lame-duck victory list any White House would want: a tax deal, a landmark repeal of the ban on openly gay military service, and the prospect of a major nuclear treaty with Russia.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drubbing’.
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That Could Have Gone Better
dud, flop, fiasco, debacle, failure, learning experience, wash, doa, epic fail, bomb, crash and burn, bungle and 41 more...
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Fun To Say & Use
Words that I may or may not use comfortably, but enjoy using and I like the sound of the word.
verisimilitude, unequivocal, ampersand, moxie-berry, drubbing, dodecahedron, piteous, charisma
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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heart of darkness
yawl, sea-reach, offing, barge, sprit, estuary, yarn, aft, mizzenmast, placid, gauzy, diaphanous and 141 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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The Amulet of Samarkand
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand.
flunky, provenance, pare, rabbit in a covert, short shrift, bunker, trainers, tatty, lob, injunction, doss, bluster and 193 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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But I like my gerunds
mourning the rumored demise of traditional grammar
upswelling, upwelling, drubbing, mourning, licking, quickening, awakening, beating, birthing, foretelling, meeting, softening and 3 more...
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Cormac McCarthy--Blood Meridian
gibbous, spanceled, legatee, vadose, debouch, toper, elision, crenellated, rowel, rebus, supernumerary, shako and 12 more...
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new to me
exacerbate, vittles, victuals, immolation, feeling his onions, palliative, bemused, twig, cheesytoes, douchoisie, teeming, acerbate and 10 more...
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Lloyd Alexander's Favorite Words
From Lloyd Alexander's books
roan, tawny, threadbare, scullery, drubbing, wrest, lichen, loam, brackish, bilious, pullet, cajoling and 7 more...
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melly's Words
discombobulated, frazzled, flux, twoddle, flip, drubbing, cantankerous
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