Thesaurus / drub
FEEDBACKHow to use drub in a sentence
Jack, life is a great schoolmaster, but why does it take so long to drub any sense into these blockheads of ours?
THE DREAMERMARY NEWTON STANARDIn the midst of his reflections the drub of the muffled telephone beat its insistent tattoo.
THE MAN IN THE TWILIGHTRIDGWELL CULLUMOn the other hand, we extend the meaning of drub, the Arabic word for bastinado, to a beating of any kind.
THE ROMANCE OF WORDS (4TH ED.)ERNEST WEEKLEYAlso, to beat or drub a person, a sense known to Shakspeare as well as to seamen.
THE SAILOR'S WORD-BOOKWILLIAM HENRY SMYTHAnd as for the men, what could they think, when the preacher could drub any six of them?
THE MAID OF SKERRICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORELaura began to drub on the drawing-room window and nod and laugh from it.
THE HISTORY OF PENDENNISWILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA hundred years ago it was the critic's pleasure to drub authors with cruel and unnecessary vigour.
PLUM PUDDINGCHRISTOPHER MORLEYDrub says that the actors left out "a considerable load of Obscenity and Prophaness."
THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGEJOHN GAYI'll break his bird-traps and smash his nets, and I'll get my big cousin, the blacksmith, to drub him to a jelly.
THE INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY, VOL. II, NO. IVARIOUSAfter a time the drub-drubbing became curiously hypnotising.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSWORDS RELATED TO DRUB
- baste
- bawl out
- beat
- berate
- blister
- cane
- censure
- chasten
- chastise
- chew out
- come down on
- correct
- criticize
- discipline
- drag over the coals
- dress down
- drub
- excoriate
- flay
- flog
- jump down one's throat
- lambaste
- lash
- lay out
- lean on
- penalize
- pummel
- punish
- rail
- rate
- read the riot act
- ream
- rebuke
- reprimand
- scarify
- scathe
- scold
- scorch
- scourge
- thrash
- tongue-lash
- upbraid
- whip
- beat
- bring to knees
- checkmate
- circumvent
- clobber
- control
- cream
- crush
- discomfit
- drub
- foil
- frustrate
- get the better of
- humble
- lick
- master
- outwit
- overmaster
- overpower
- override
- overthrow
- prevail
- quell
- reduce
- rout
- shut down
- subdue
- subjugate
- succeed
- surmount
- throw
- thwart
- total
- trample underfoot
- trash
- triumph
- vanquish
- whip
- wipe off map
- worst
- zap
- baffles
- balks
- beats down
- beats the system
- blanks
- blocks
- buries
- casts down
- causes setback
- checkmates
- circumvents
- confounds
- contravenes
- cooks
- counterplots
- crosses
- disappoints
- discomfits
- disconcerts
- disproves
- edges out
- foils
- invalidates
- neutralizes
- nonpluses
- nose out
- nullifies
- outwits
- overturns
- puts end to
- puzzles
- quells
- reduces
- refutes
- ruins
- scuttles
- shaves
- shellacs
- skunks
- spoils
- squashes
- stumps
- subdues
- subjugates
- surmounts
- takes wind out of sails
- throws for loop
- thwarts
- undoes
- victimizes
- bang
- bash
- batter
- beat
- beat up
- bludgeon
- break face
- buffet
- claw
- clean
- drub
- flagellate
- flail
- handle roughly
- hit
- hurt
- ill-treat
- knock about
- knock around
- lacerate
- lash
- lean on
- let have it
- maltreat
- molest
- mug
- muscle
- paste
- paw
- pelt
- pound
- pummel
- put in the hospital
- rough up
- skin
- take care of
- thrash
- trample
- wax
- whip
- work over
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