What does drubbing mean?
Drubbing means present participle and gerund of drub.
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/ˈdɹʌbɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of drub.
His mother gave him a drubbing after finding out he'd been stealing.
Yet upon its release in Germany the first world war drama has been at the receiving end of a critical drubbing, with critics complaining that it turns a beloved literary classic into a spectacle “horny for an Oscar”, and military historians bemoaning its “black-and-white” historical inaccuracies.
The debate team got a drubbing from the competition.
Leighton Baines's deflected free-kick added yet more late gloss to the drubbing, the Everton player celebrating his first competitive start with England's first goal direct from a free-kick since David Beckham scored against Ecuador at the 2006 World Cup.
In a short speech Sunday night after his party’s drubbing, a downcast Mr. Abascal acknowledged that Mr. Sánchez now had the support to block a new government, and could also be sworn in again with the support of the far-left and the separatist parties, or what he called “the support of communists and terrorists.”
Peter Dutton was a disaster for the Liberals, as the election drubbing showed.
Use drubbing when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Drubbing means present participle and gerund of drub.
Common synonyms include debacle, thrashing, whipping, slaughter.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His mother gave him a drubbing after finding out he'd been stealing.
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