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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : druhb |
| Phonetic Transcription : drʌb |
Definition of drub
Origin :- 1630s (in an Oriental travel narrative), probably from Arabic darb "a beating," from daraba "he beat up" (see discussion in OED). Related: Drubbed; Drubbing.
- verb thrash
- At rehearsal he used frequently to drub his former mistress.
- Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
- He has to drub along all day, day in and day out, sternly, and be President of all of us.
- Extract from : « The Ghost in the White House » by Gerald Stanley Lee
- And as for the men, what could they think, when the preacher could drub any six of them?
- Extract from : « The Maid of Sker » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Laura began to drub on the drawing-room window and nod and laugh from it.
- Extract from : « The History of Pendennis » by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Drub says that the actors left out "a considerable load of Obscenity and Prophaness."
- Extract from : « Three Hours after Marriage » by John Gay
- Did ever any Tradesmen succeed, who attempted to drub Customers into his Shop?
- Extract from : « Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) » by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
- A hundred years ago it was the critic's pleasure to drub authors with cruel and unnecessary vigour.
- Extract from : « Plum Pudding » by Christopher Morley
- I'll break his bird-traps and smash his nets, and I'll get my big cousin, the blacksmith, to drub him to a jelly.
- Extract from : « The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I » by Various
- Jack, life is a great schoolmaster, but why does it take so long to drub any sense into these blockheads of ours?
- Extract from : « The Dreamer » by Mary Newton Stanard
- Also, to beat or drub a person, a sense known to Shakspeare as well as to seamen.
- Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
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