Drubbing - English meaning

noun

The action of striking repeatedly with hard blows.

Usage examples:

The south of england will take the heaviest battering

verb

Strike repeatedly with hard blows.

Usage examples:

A prisoner was battered to death with a table leg

verb

(of a wall) have a receding slope.

noun

A punishment or assault in which the victim is hit repeatedly.

Usage examples:

If he got dirt on his clothes he'd get a beating

verb

Strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip.

Usage examples:

If we were caught we were beaten

noun

The act of hitting someone hard and repeatedly

Usage examples:

He escaped a beating., fig. this chair has taken a beating over the years (= been used often and da…

verb

Beat (someone) repeatedly with a bludgeon or other heavy object.

Usage examples:

She was found bludgeoned to death in the basement

noun

A thick stick with a heavy end, used as a weapon.

Usage examples:

Maces and spiked bludgeons

verb

Present participle of bludgeon

Usage examples:

The two boys had been mercilessly bludgeoned to death., the managers bludgeoned us into agreeing to…

noun

The action of striking someone or something repeatedly and violently.

Usage examples:

The roofs have survived the buffeting of worse winds than this

verb

(especially of wind or waves) strike repeatedly and violently; batter.

Usage examples:

Rough seas buffeted the coast

verb

Present participle of buffet

Usage examples:

The little boat was buffeted mercilessly by the waves.

verb

Secure with handcuffs.

Usage examples:

The man's hands were cuffed behind his back

verb

Strike (someone) with an open hand, especially on the head.

Usage examples:

He cuffed him playfully on the ear

noun

The end part of a sleeve, where the material of the sleeve is turned back or a separate band is sewn on.

Usage examples:

A red dress with a white lace collar and cuffs

verb

Strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass).

Usage examples:

The captured general was flayed alive

verb

Present participle of flay

Usage examples:

Figurative the critics really flayed (= severely criticized) his new book.

verb

To remove the skin from a person's or animal's body

noun

A punishment in which the victim is hit repeatedly with a whip or stick.

Usage examples:

Public floggings

verb

Beat (someone) with a whip or stick as a punishment.

Usage examples:

The men had been flogged and branded on the forehead

noun

A punishment in which someone is beaten severely with a whip or a stick

noun

A harsh criticism.

Usage examples:

He received a lambasting from critics and fans

verb

Criticize (someone or something) harshly.

Usage examples:

They lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth

verb

Present participle of lambaste

Usage examples:

His first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.

noun

An attack by an animal causing serious injury.

Usage examples:

Increased incidences of grizzly bear maulings

verb

(of an animal) wound (a person or animal) by scratching and tearing.

Usage examples:

A man was mauled by a lion at london zoo

noun

Severe criticism of someone or something

Usage examples:

Her latest novel got a real mauling in the review that i read.

verb

Hurl missiles repeatedly at.

Usage examples:

Two boys pelted him with rotten apples

noun

An act of hurling something at someone.

noun

The skin of an animal with the fur, wool, or hair still on it.

Usage examples:

Traders brought reindeer pelts

noun

Repeated and heavy striking or hitting of someone or something.

Usage examples:

The pounding of the surf on a sandy beach

verb

Strike or hit heavily and repeatedly.

Usage examples:

Patrick pounded the couch with his fists

verb

Shut (an animal) in a pound.

verb

Strike repeatedly with the fists.

Usage examples:

He felt like a boxer who had been pummelled mercilessly against the ropes

verb

Strike with the fist.

Usage examples:

He punched her in the face and ran off

verb

Pierce a hole in (paper, leather, metal, etc.) with or as though with a punch.

Usage examples:

She handed him her ticket, which he punched and returned with a grin

noun

A blow with the fist.

Usage examples:

He reeled under the well-aimed punch

verb

Hit or strike with the palm of the hand or a flat object.

Usage examples:

My sister slapped my face

noun

A blow with the palm of the hand or a flat object.

Usage examples:

She gave her a slap across her cheek

noun

Make-up, especially when applied thickly or carelessly.

Usage examples:

I put a bit of slap on my face and we were ready to go

verb

Strike (someone or something), typically with the palm of the hand and as a punishment.

Usage examples:

Jessica smacked his face, quite hard

verb

Have a flavour of; taste of.

Usage examples:

The tea smacked strongly of tannin

noun

A sharp slap or blow, typically one given with the palm of the hand.

Usage examples:

She gave mark a smack across the face

noun

An act of physically beating someone; a beating.

Usage examples:

A sound thrashing might teach the individual to refrain from complaining

verb

Beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip.

Usage examples:

She thrashed him across the head and shoulders

noun

An occasion when someone hits a person or animal hard many times as a punishment

Usage examples:

At that time the thrashing of servants was legal., he was discovered to have stolen the money and g…

adjective

Pounding or throbbing in a heavy, continuous way.

Usage examples:

The thumping beat of her heart

verb

Hit or strike heavily, especially with the fist or a blunt implement.

Usage examples:

Holman thumped the desk with his hand

adjective

Very big or important

Usage examples:

A thumping defeat/victory, they won by a thumping majority., i'm not carrying that thumping great t…

verb

Strike forcefully with a sharp blow.

Usage examples:

She thwacked the back of their knees with a cane

noun

A sharp blow.

Usage examples:

He hit it with a hefty thwack

verb

Present participle of thwack

noun

A beating.

Usage examples:

She gave him a good walloping

adjective

Large and powerful.

Usage examples:

A walloping shock

verb

Strike or hit very hard.

Usage examples:

They walloped the back of his head with a stick

noun

A thrashing or beating with a whip or similar implement.

Usage examples:

She saw scars on his back from the whippings

verb

Beat (a person or animal) with a whip or similar instrument, especially as a punishment or to urge them on.

Usage examples:

Lewis whipped the boy twenty times

noun

A beating, esp. with a whip