drubbing
Meaning of drubbing
- a beating; a thrashing.
I'll give the scoundrels a drubbing if I can!
- hit or beat (someone) repeatedly.
he was drubbed with tiresome regularity by his classmates
early 17th century: probably from Arabic ḍaraba ‘to beat, bastinado’. The first recorded uses in English are by travellers in the Near East referring specifically to the punishment of bastinado.
Information about drubbing
- The plural form of drubbing is: drubbings.
- Languages in which drubbing is used:
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Hyphenation of drubbing
drub-bing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- drubbing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
drubbing synonyms
Meaning thrashing:
thrashing, walloping, debacle, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
Meaning beating:
beating, thrashing, licking, lacing, trouncing, whacking
Meaning pounding or throbbing in a heavy, continuous way:
Meaning the action of striking repeatedly with hard blows:
Meaning repeated and heavy striking or hitting of someone or something:
Meaning strike repeatedly with the fists:
Meaning hit or strike with the palm of the hand or a flat object:
Meaning strike (someone or something), typically with the palm of the hand and as a punishment:
Meaning strike with the fist:
Meaning beat (someone) repeatedly with a bludgeon or other heavy object:
Meaning strike forcefully with a sharp blow:
Meaning secure with handcuffs:
Meaning the action of striking someone or something repeatedly and violently:
Meaning an attack by an animal causing serious injury:
Meaning hurl missiles repeatedly at:
Meaning a harsh criticism:
Meaning a punishment in which the victim is hit repeatedly with a whip or stick:
Meaning strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass):
Meaning beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment:
Meaning beat with a cudgel:
Meaning combine with others so as to collect a sum of money for a particular purpose:
Meaning the action or sound of hammering something:
Meaning hit (someone) hard:
Meaning belts collectively, or material for belts:
Meaning violent physical assault:
Meaning a severe beating or defeat:
Meaning drink (something, typically alcohol) in a large draught; swig:
Meaning the action or activity of exposing one's skin to the sun in order to achieve a brown or darkened colour:
Meaning strike (someone) roughly or sharply with the fist:
Meaning dance to pop music:
Meaning a physical beating:
Meaning an assault in which the victim is kicked repeatedly:
Words that rhyme with drubbing
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