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drubbing

/druhb-ing/US // ˈdrʌb ɪŋ //UK // (ˈdrʌbɪŋ) //

殴打,擦伤,击溃,捣毁

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a beating; a sound thrashing.
    • : a decisive, humiliating defeat, as in a game or contest.

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Examples

  • Although the hearing was meant to focus on misinformation, it became an all-hands drubbing of the CEOs over everything from their market dominance to the fate of a local Republican party organization’s Facebook page.

  • A spectacular drubbing would have been better, but simply collecting victories keeps the Aggies in the playoff picture for another week.

  • He just wanted to bring the drubbing San Diego Republicans had experienced into relief.

  • Her Food Network-colleague Guy Fieri opened a new restaurant and Times Square and received a drubbing in The New York Times.

  • She took a drubbing, fielding accusations of self-aggrandizement from the financial press and fans alike.

  • The Republican senator took a drubbing in his own state from Democratic strategist Pat Caddell.

  • After the drubbing I gave James Turrell's Guggenheim mess, it's a pleasure to have found a Light And Space work I can get behind.

  • Last week, after rounds of critical drubbing, Lazaro landed in the top three.

  • I want Thatcher to have his way in that convention, naming the ticket as far as he pleases, and appearing to give me a drubbing.

  • He would have handed me a merciless drubbing if he had caught me, with my nether end hanging helplessly on the outside.

  • Go to him there, and you'll find him perched on a stool, and a good drubbing won't hurt him.

  • He gave young McKenzie a severe drubbing and the latter had to go home with his clothes torn and his nose bleeding.

  • I want to see you give that big brute the drubbing he merits, so he will keep still for a while.