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How to pronounce drubbing in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking
Type of corporal punishment
Has types flogging, lashing, tanning, whipping, flagellation
Type Words
Synonyms debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping
Type of licking, defeat
Derivation drub

Examples of drubbing

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He even went so far as to lay the 45-3 drubbing by the Patriots at his own feet.
From the bostonherald.com
Later became sooner in a 31-13 drubbing by Tennessee on a dreary Saturday night.
From the thestate.com
Bruises are still tender from the Democrat drubbing Republicans took on Tuesday.
From the washingtontimes.com
Florida Atlantic has had a bye week to recover from a 49-3 drubbing at Nebraska.
From the tennessean.com
The bottom half of the order would have given the top-half an absolute drubbing.
From the guardian.co.uk
After those 40 minutes, the score showed the No. 16 Cats drubbing Auburn 69-38.
From the kentucky.com
He played in the 1991 Cotton Bowl against Miami, which gave UT a 46-3 drubbing.
From the chron.com
For decades, Modern Orthodoxy has taken a drubbing from its left and its right.
From the time.com
The polls keep suggesting that Republicans could be in for a historic drubbing.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Thrashing: a sound defeat
  • Beating: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
  • (drub) cream: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
  • Assault is a crime of violence against another person. In some jurisdictions, including Australia and New Zealand, as well as the USA, assault refers to an act that causes another to apprehend an immediate harmful contact, whereas the actual contact itself is called "battery. ...
  • Buton Rinchen Drub , (1290-1364), 11th Abbot of Shalu Monastery, was a fourteenth century Sakya master and Tibetan Buddhist leader (Kinship Relations: rgyal mtshan dpal bzang Father - bsod nams 'bum Mother). ...
  • A severe beating; A thorough defeat
  • (drub) 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
  • (Drub) Troll, female; one of Picknose's progeny.
  • (drub) perhaps from Arabic khil'a, fine garment given as a presentation. [18]