Drub

Definition: Drub

Drub

Verb

1. Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drub" was first used: 1634 (found in an Oriental travel narrative). (references)

drub

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Drub

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Success

Defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset, override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat, put out of court.

Crosswords: Drub

Expression using "drub": drub smth. into smb.. Additional references.

Beginning with "drub": drub-drub-drub, Drub-drub-drub-drub-drub.

Ending with "drub": drub-drub-drub, Drub-drub-drub-drub-drub.

Albanian

dërrmoj (contuse, crush, grind, hammer, mangle, overcome, plough under, smash, whelm, wipe the floor with), zhdëp (belabor, belabour, lambaste, larrup, trounce, wallop, whop), rrah me shkop (cane, fustigate), mund keqas, kopanis (swingle, swish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ругая (abuse, be down on, call names, curse, cuss, damn, get on to smb., inveigh, keelhaul, land on, rail, rate, revile, row, slang, slate, storm at, swear, swear at, vituperate, walk into, whip), надвивам (fight down, fight off, overbear, overpower, overwhelm, pip, thrash, vanquish, worst), бия с пръчка (baste, cane, flay, flog, larrup, lather, swish, switch, whip), пердаша (baste, leather, pelt, tan, thrash, towel). (various references)

Czech

luskat prsty. (various references)

Farsi 

چوب زدن (Bastinado, Beat, Cudgel, Switch), کتک زدن (Beat, Bludgeon, Clobber, Mug, Smack, Thrash), شکست دادن (Defeat, Floor, Outdo, Skunk, Smash, Smite, Trounce, Vanquish, Worst). (various references)

French

rouer de coups, rosser. (various references)

Greek 

ράβδοσ (bandy, bar, baton, crook, ferule, ingot, perch, rod, shaft, staff, stick, truncheon, verge, walking stick, wand), ραβδίζω (baste, cane), ξυλίζω (thrash), δέρνω (beat, beat up, beaten, churn, ferule, flog, lambaste, lash, lick, scourge, shellac, spank, trounce, whip, whop). (various references)

Hungarian

elver (beat up, curry, thrash, to batter about, to curry, to haze, to hide, to lace, to lay it on sy, to leather, to mill, to pepper, to piss away, to run through, to slosh, to thrash, to trounce, to wallop, trounce). (various references)

Indonesian

memukuli (beat, dash, thrash, trounce). (various references)

Italian

bastonare (beat, beat up, belabor, belabour, cane, club, Lam, thrash). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubdray

Portuguese

surrar (bash, clapperclaw, lash, wallop), surra (clubbing, dressing, drubbing, flogging, lacing, lash, whipping), pancada (bang, bash, bat, biff, blow, bob, bop, clout, crack, cram, dint, flaw, flick, knock, lick, milling, pelt, plunk, shock, smacker, stinger, strike, stroke, swat, tit), fechar (bar, berate, box, chain, close, coffin, fasten, immure, impound, lock, mure, occlude, pen, pin down, rail, seal, shut, shut in, snap, stop up, stopple, to close, turn off). (various references)

Romanian

stâlci (beat smb. black and blue, belabour, bruise, distort, flog, murder, whack, whip), smotoci (pommel, whack), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, cut, dab, drive, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), ciomãgi (baste, club, cudgel, fustigate, sandbag, thrash, whop), birui (conquer, defeat, master, overbear, overcome, overpower, subdue, surmount, vanquish, win), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), învinge (beat, best, break through, circumvent, conquer, defeat, discomfit, dispose, flog, floor, get the better of, knock, master, overcome, overmaster, overpower, pull through, reason down, surmount, thrash, vanquish, whip, win, win over, worst). (various references)

Russian 

ругать (abuse, berate, rail, scold, swear, whip), топать (stamp, stomp), бить (baste, beat, beaten, belabour, buffet, catch, chastise, chime, club, hit, kicked, kicking, knock, lambaste, larrup, lick, pound, pummel, run across, smash, strike, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whop). (various references)

Scottish

laoir (drub lustily). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potući (destroy, outclass, outfight, scupper, trounce), izbatinati (chastise, club, cudgel), istući (beat, belabour, thrash, wallop, whop, work over). (various references)

Spanish

apaleo (whack), apalear (baste, batter, beat, beat up, belabor, belabour, bludgeon, club, thrash). (various references)

Swedish

prygla (belt, cane, cudgel, flog, larrup, lash, strap, welt), piska (batter, beat, cane, curry, drive, flagellate, flog, lash, patter, scourge, slash, whip). (various references)

Thai

เอาชนะ (best, mop up, rise above), การตี (hit, licking), กระทืบเท้า, ตี (dub, hit, smite on, smite upon, zonk). (various references)

Turkish

dayak atmak (bash up, baste, beat, chastise, clobber, cudgel, curry, flog, give a thrashing, give smb. the works, give the stick, hide, Lam, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, pelt, punish, spifflicate, spiflicate, thrash, trounce, whop), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), yenilgiye uğratmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

удар ціпком, розбити (overwhelm), вбивати (beat into), бити ціпком. (various references)

daraba. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "drub": drubbed, drubber, drubbers, drubbing, drubbings, drubs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Drub" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arub, darib, deub, Dhruv, dhub, Dhubh, doub, Draba, Drabo, dreb, dreeb, Dreu, drobe, droob, dru, drube, Drud, Drue, druf, druh, drul, Drumbo, drun, drup, drut, druv, druw, Dsubl, Dubb, dubh, durf, durp, trub, Zdruj. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: burd.

-1 letter: bud, bur, dub, rub, urb, urd.

+1 letter: burds, drubs, redub.

+2 letters: absurd, bedrug, bruted, budder, budger, burden, burdie, buried, burked, burled, burned, burped, burred, curbed, dauber, daubry, dorbug, dubber, dumber, durbar, redbud, redbug, redubs, rubbed, rubied, turbid, unbred.

+3 letters: abjured, absurds, bahadur, bedrugs, bludger, blunder, blurbed, blurred, blurted, bordure, boudoir, boulder, bounder, bourdon, bruised, bruited, brushed, budders, budgers, budworm, builder, buirdly, bundler, burbled, burdens, burdies, burdock, burgled, burseed, bursted, burweed, bustard, buzzard, crumbed, cudbear, daubers, daubery, daubier, disturb, dorbugs, doubler, doubter, drubbed, drubber, drumble, dubbers, durable, durably, durbars, embrued, grubbed, imbrued, obtrude, outbred, overdub, rebound, rebuild, rebuked, redbuds, redbugs, redoubt, rosebud, rubbled, rubdown, rubidic, rudesby, rumbaed, rumbled, sandbur, subadar, subarid, subduer, sunbird, umbered, unbraid, unrobed, upbraid.