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DRUB
cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; “We licked the other team on Sunday!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
drub (usually uncountable, plural drubs)
(dialectal, Northern England) carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
Etymology 2
Verb
drub (third-person singular simple present drubs, present participle drubbing, simple past and past participle drubbed) (transitive)
To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
To forcefully teach something.
To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
Anagrams
• BrdU, Burd, brud, burd
Source: Wiktionary
Drub, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drubbing.] Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. drab to beat, Icel. & Sw. drabba to hit, beat, Dan. dræbe to slay, and perh. OE. drepen to strike, kill, AS. drepan to strike, G. & D. freffen to hit, touch, Icel. drepa to strike, kill.]
Definition: To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. L'Estrange.
Drub, n.
Definition: A blow with a cudgel; a thump. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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