Definitions for drubbing

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drubbing drub·bing

Spelling: [druhb-ing]

IPA: /ˈdrʌb ɪŋ/

Drubbing is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in drubbing (bbdginru).

Definitions for drubbing

noun

1. a beating; a sound thrashing.
2. a decisive, humiliating defeat, as in a game or contest.
3. a blow with a stick or the like.

verb (used with object)

1. to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
2. to defeat decisively, as in a game or contest.
3. to drive as if by flogging:
4. to stamp (the feet).

Origin of drubbing

First recorded in 1640-50; drub + -ing¹

Examples for drubbing

And conversely, how will Obama recover from this creaming, this drubbing at the hands of a man he despises?

Her Food Network-colleague Guy Fieri opened a new restaurant and Times Square and received a drubbing in The New York Times.

According to this fact I must admit, that he deserves a drubbing.

Now and then a drubbing, but who pays any attention to such things!

She took a drubbing, fielding accusations of self-aggrandizement from the financial press and fans alike.

The Republican senator took a drubbing in his own state from Democratic strategist Pat Caddell.

After the drubbing I gave James Turrell's Guggenheim mess, it's a pleasure to have found a Light And Space work I can get behind.

I fancy I had some vague notion of falling upon him and giving him a drubbing.

Some of you men 'd be the better for a drubbing every day of your lives.

Then shall he not go without a ducking and eke a drubbing himself!