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drub

/druhb/US // drʌb //UK // (drʌb) //

擦伤,擦拭,擦擦,擦亮眼睛

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    drubbed, drub·bing.

    • : to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
    • : to defeat decisively, as in a game or contest.
    • : to drive as if by flogging: Latin grammar was drubbed into their heads.
    • : to stamp.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a blow with a stick or the like.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Jack, life is a great schoolmaster, but why does it take so long to drub any sense into these blockheads of ours?

  • In the midst of his reflections the drub of the muffled telephone beat its insistent tattoo.

  • On the other hand, we extend the meaning of drub, the Arabic word for bastinado, to a beating of any kind.

  • Also, to beat or drub a person, a sense known to Shakspeare as well as to seamen.

  • And as for the men, what could they think, when the preacher could drub any six of them?