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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
drub/drʌb/

▶verb (drubs, drubbing, drubbed)

1 hit or beat repeatedly.

2 informal defeat thoroughly.

– derivatives
drubbing noun.

– origin C17 (orig. with ref. to the punishment of bastinado): prob. from Arab. ḍaraba ‘to beat’.

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