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UK
/dɹˈʌbɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈdɹəbɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹəbɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
- a sound defeat
How To Use drubbing In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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.
- Obama is rebounding from his party's midterm drubbing with the kind of lame-duck victories any White House would want. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- It has taken a drubbing from analysts who say its labor costs are too high.
- Duncan Fletcher, England's coach, has called for calm after England's embarrassing drubbings in the last two NatWest Series matches.
- Johnson's promised fuller analysis is now in development, with a Telegraph column suggesting that something subtler than police "sjambok drubbings" may be required. London's missing dimension – serenity | Dave Hill
- It has taken a drubbing for all the little things that don't quite work. Times, Sunday Times