drub

drub

transitive verb

drubbed, drub′bing

to beat as with a stick or club; cudgel; thrash
to defeat soundly in a fight, contest, etc.

Origin of drub

uncertain or unknown; perhaps via Turkish durb from Arabic darb, a beating from daraba, to cudgel, bastinado

to drum or tap

a blow as with a club; thump

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drub

verb

drubbed, drub·bing, drubs

verb

transitive

To thrash with a stick.
To instill forcefully: drubbed the lesson into my head.
a. To defeat soundly.
b. To berate harshly.
To stamp (the feet).

verb

intransitive

To beat the ground; stamp.
To pound; throb.

noun

A blow with a heavy instrument, such as a stick.

Origin of drub

Perhaps Arabic dialectal &dlowdot;rab from &dlowdot;araba to hit &saclod;rb

Related Forms:

drub′ber
noun

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present drubs, present participle drubbing, simple past and past participle drubbed)

to beat (someone or something) with a stick
to forcefully teach something
to defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush
to criticize harshly; to excoriate

Anagrams

BrdU, burd

Origin

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 *drepaną (“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.