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drubbing
Synonyms and Antonyms of drubbing
- took a terrible drubbing in last night's basketball game
Synonyms and Antonyms of drubbing
- a crowd was drubbing the purse snatcher when the police arrived on the scene
bashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, birching, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging up, clubbing, currying, doing, fibbing [British], flogging, hammering, hiding, lacing, lambasting, lashing, lathering, licking, mauling, messing (up), paddling, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), punching out, roughing (up), slating, slogging, switching, tanning, thrashing, threshing, thumping, tromping, walloping, whaling, whipping, whopping (or whapping), whupping, working over
assailing, assaulting, attacking, besetting, boxing, busting, chopping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cudgeling (or cudgelling), cuffing, descending (on or upon), hitting, jumping (on), knocking, lamming, laying on, pasting, pouncing (on or upon), punching, raiding, rushing, slamming, slapping, smacking, smashing, socking, spanking, storming, swatting, swiping, thwacking, whacking, whamming, whomping
blackjacking, caning, cowhiding, flagellating, fustigating, horsewhipping, leathering, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, strapping
- we drubbed our traditional football rivals so badly that it was basically no contest
annihilating, blowing away, bombing, burying, clobbering, creaming, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, shellacking, skinning, skunking, smoking [slang], smothering, snowing under, thrashing, trimming, tromping, trouncing, walloping, waxing [slang], whipping, whomping, whopping (or whapping), whupping
beating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worsting
crushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishing
acing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending
edging (out), nosing out, pipping [British]
capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeeding
breaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering
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