Synonyms of drubbing

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noun

as in defeat

failure to win a contest

took a terrible drubbing in last night's basketball game

Synonyms & Similar Words

• defeat
• loss
• beating
• setback
• rout
• whipping
• shellacking
• trouncing
• overthrow
• trimming
• licking
• plastering
• failure
• collapse
• upset
• debacle
• fiasco
• flop
• lump
• shutout
• débâcle
• washout
• lurch
• whitewash
• nonsuccess
• fizzle

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• victory
• success
• triumph
• win
• achievement
• accomplishment
• blowout
• sweep
• landslide
• runaway
• romp
• walkover
• cakewalk
• walkaway

drubbing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of drub

1

as in pounding

to strike repeatedly

a crowd was drubbing the purse snatcher when the police arrived on the scene

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pounding
• licking
• lashing
• whipping
• battering
• beating
• hiding
• thumping
• mauling
• pelting
• spanking
• attacking
• knocking
• slapping
• hitting
• pummeling
• pummelling
• doing
• thrashing
• smashing
• slamming
• batting
• punching
• walloping
• assaulting
• hammering
• bludgeoning
• bashing
• whupping
• flogging
• buffeting
• storming
• chopping
• raiding
• clubbing
• lambasting
• paddling
• smacking
• whopping
• slating
• currying
• working over
• slogging
• punching out
• boxing
• lathering
• tanning
• whacking
• switching
• fibbing
• messing (up)
• roughing (up)
• belting
• wounding
• whapping
• belaboring
• threshing
• whaling
• pommelling
• birching
• basting
• tromping
• swiping
• pommeling
• cracking
• lacing
• thwacking
• rushing
• clobbering
• bunging up
• swatting
• beating up on
• pasting
• cudgelling
• descending (on or upon)
• clouting
• cudgeling
• socking
• assailing
• jumping (on)
• besetting
• strapping
• pouncing (on or upon)
• scourging
• cuffing
• caning
• laying on
• whomping
• lacerating
• whamming
• busting
• flagellating
• lamming
• pistol-whipping
• horsewhipping
• leathering
• mangling
• goring
• maiming
• blackjacking
• mutilating
• cowhiding
• rawhiding
• fustigating

2

as in whipping

to defeat by a large margin

we drubbed our traditional football rivals so badly that it was basically no contest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• bombing
• trouncing
• overcoming
• shellacking
• thrashing
• burying
• walloping
• beating
• throwing
• upsetting
• clobbering
• pasting
• routing
• whupping
• dusting
• flattening
• mastering
• whopping
• trimming
• annihilating
• smothering
• blowing away
• taking
• waxing
• creaming
• topping
• overwhelming
• whomping
• smoking
• skinning
• skunking
• sweeping
• whapping
• tromping
• scoring
• succeeding
• surpassing
• conquering
• exceeding
• running rings around
• dispatching
• crushing
• eating alive
• snowing under
• running circles around
• beating the pants off
• wiping the ground with
• destroying
• wiping the floor with
• capping
• licking
• winning (against)
• prevailing (over)
• vanquishing
• subduing
• finishing
• surmounting
• slaughtering
• besting
• subjugating
• triumphing (over)
• overthrowing
• upending
• knocking over
• hurdling
• overpowering
• overbearing
• outdistancing
• eclipsing
• outdoing
• overmatching
• outshining
• outstripping
• knocking off
• bettering
• transcending
• edging (out)
• acing (out)
• overtopping
• excelling
• worsting
• flourishing
• sinking
• outfighting
• breaking
• pipping
• doing in
• nosing out