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Antonyms for drub

Grammar : Verb
Spell : druhb
Phonetic Transcription : drÊŒb

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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Synonyms for drub

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