drubbing

Meaning of drubbing

noun
  1. a beating; a thrashing.
    I'll give the scoundrels a drubbing if I can!
verb, gerund or present participle
  1. 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.
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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:

thumping

Meaning the action of striking repeatedly with hard blows:

battering

Meaning repeated and heavy striking or hitting of someone or something:

pounding

Meaning strike repeatedly with the fists:

pummelling

Meaning hit or strike with the palm of the hand or a flat object:

slapping

Meaning strike (someone or something), typically with the palm of the hand and as a punishment:

smacking

Meaning strike with the fist:

punching

Meaning beat (someone) repeatedly with a bludgeon or other heavy object:

bludgeoning

Meaning strike forcefully with a sharp blow:

thwacking

Meaning secure with handcuffs:

cuffing

Meaning the action of striking someone or something repeatedly and violently:

buffeting

Meaning an attack by an animal causing serious injury:

mauling

Meaning hurl missiles repeatedly at:

pelting

Meaning a harsh criticism:

lambasting

Meaning a punishment in which the victim is hit repeatedly with a whip or stick:

flogging

Meaning strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass):

flaying

Meaning beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment:

birching

Meaning beat with a cudgel:

cudgelling

Meaning combine with others so as to collect a sum of money for a particular purpose:

clubbing

Meaning the action or sound of hammering something:

hammering

Meaning hit (someone) hard:

clobbering

Meaning belts collectively, or material for belts:

belting

Meaning violent physical assault:

bashing

Meaning a severe beating or defeat:

pasting

Meaning drink (something, typically alcohol) in a large draught; swig:

slugging

Meaning the action or activity of exposing one's skin to the sun in order to achieve a brown or darkened colour:

tanning

Meaning strike (someone) roughly or sharply with the fist:

biffing

Meaning dance to pop music:

bopping

Meaning a physical beating:

hiding

Meaning an assault in which the victim is kicked repeatedly:

kicking

Words that rhyme with drubbing

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