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drub

  [druhb] verb, drubbed, drub⋅bing, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
2. to defeat decisively, as in a game or contest.
3. to drive as if by flogging: Latin grammar was drubbed into their heads.
4. to stamp (the feet).
–noun
5. a blow with a stick or the like.
Origin:
1625–35; perh. by uncert. mediation < Ar ḍarb blow, beating

Related forms:
drubber, noun
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drub   (drŭb)   
v.   drubbed, drub·bing, drubs

v.   tr.

  1. To thrash with a stick.

  2. To instill forcefully: drubbed the lesson into my head.

    1. To defeat soundly.

    2. To berate harshly.

  4. To stamp (the feet).

v.   intr.

  1. To beat the ground; stamp.

  2. To pound; throb.

n.  A blow with a heavy instrument, such as a stick.

[Perhaps Arabic dialectal ḍrab, from ḍaraba, to hit; see rb in Semitic roots.]
drub'ber n.
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Word Origin & History

drub 
1634 (in an Oriental travel narrative), probably from Arabic darb "a beating," from daraba "he beat up."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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