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US
/ˈdɹəb/
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VERB
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beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
We licked the other team on Sunday!
How To Use drub In A Sentence
- Recently—too recently for the information to be included in "Carthage Must Be Destroyed"—the site of the Battle of Baecula in 208 B.C., where Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian army under Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal, was discovered in Spain. An Empire of the Mediterranean
- Yes, it drubs the Corolla, but the current Corolla has been around since the Earth cooled (2006). Brand-New and Almost Out of Date
- Halladay implied some criticism of his game-calling after the Orioles drubbed him last Friday.
- It may even date to Kay-drub's tenure as the second Holder of the Throne of The Shuk-den Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part II)
- The Shrimps recorded a 2-1 win over Fleet - and that wiped away the nightmare of last season's 6-0 drubbing at Stonebridge Road.
- He is despised by the overwhelming majority of the population, and most of them will secretly cheer if he gets a drubbing at the hands of the protestors.
- “Hear, King Moloch!” called Hasdrubal, lifting his swarthy arms to heaven, then striking them with his sword till the blood gushed down, “suffer us to escape this calamity and I vow thee even my daughter Tibaït, — a child in her tenth year, — she shall die in thy holy furnace a sacrifice.” A Victor of Salamis
- According to figures released on Friday, US consumer sentiment tumbled in early July as the stock market drubbing soured Americans' expectations.
- Nottingham Forest got/received/took a severe drubbing at the hands of Manchester United.
- Some take the verbal drubbings in stride.