1. [informal] A sound defeat
   "The underdog team received a drubbing in the championship game";
   - thrashing, walloping, debacle, slaughter, trouncing, whipping, pasting [informal], hammering [informal], débâcle, beatdown [N. Amer], smackdown [N. Amer, informal], licking [informal]
    
2. The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
   "The drubbing of students was once a common form of discipline in schools";
   - beating, thrashing, hiding [informal]

1. [informal] Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   "We drubbed the other team on Sunday!";
   - cream [informal], clobber [informal], thrash [informal], lick [informal], paste [informal], blow away [informal], muller [Brit, informal], marmelize [Brit, informal], marmelise [Brit, informal], trounce, whale [N. Amer, informal], hammer [informal], wipe the floor [informal], marmalise [Brit, informal], beat hollow [informal], slaughter [informal], marmalize [Brit, informal], smoke [N. Amer, informal], shellack [N. Amer, informal], shellac [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. Beat or strike repeatedly with force
   "The boxer drubbed his opponent with a series of heavy blows"

Derived forms: drubbings

Type of: beat, beat out, corporal punishment, crush, defeat, shell [US], trounce, vanquish

Encyclopedia: Drubbing