Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To beat (someone or something) with a stick.

    prügeln

    колоти́тьkolotítʹ

    beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

  2. (transitive)To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.

  3. (transitive)To forcefully teach something.

  4. (transitive)To criticize harshly; to excoriate.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. We gave the enemy a drubbing.

    ruМы задали противнику трёпку. — shanghainese

    Dejo · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. After its drubbing at the polls, the party has to reinvent itself.

    deNach der Wahlniederlage muss sich die Partei neu erfinden. — raggione

    sundown · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to beat with a stick:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to beat with a stick:

Origin

1625, of uncertain origin:

1625, of uncertain origin:

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Forms

drubs, drubbing, drubbed, drubbed
Base formdrub · to drub
3rd person singulardrubs
Present participledrubbing
Past simpledrubbed
Past participledrubbed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydrub
he, she, itdrubs

Past simpleLesson

all personsdrubbed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave drubbed
he, she, ithas drubbed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill drub

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relateddrubbing
Deriveddrubber

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
drownB1drowningdrowsinessdrowsydrudgeryC2drugA2drugstoreA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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