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A drubbing is a heavy defeat, especially in sport: one side beats the other so clearly that people say they gave them a drubbing, or took a drubbing. Sports writers like the word — it sounds sharp in a headline. Underneath it sits an older verb, drub, meaning to beat or thrash someone, so a drubbing was first a beating, and then people stretched it to games. You can still hear the older sense, but the match-day sense is the one you will meet most now. It is informal to , not a word for a careful school essay unless you are writing about a game.
（比賽中的）痛擊、慘敗
組成From drub + -ing. Drub is an older verb meaning to beat.
同家族的字
- drubolder verb: to beat; a drubbing is that beating, now often in sport
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
drubbingnoun/ˈdɹʌbɪŋ/
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A severe beating.
- His mother gave him a drubbing after finding out he'd been stealing.
- Yet upon its release in Germany the first world war drama has been at the receiving end of a critical drubbing, with critics complaining that it turns a beloved literary classic into a spectacle “horny for an Oscar”, and military historians bemoaning its “black-and-white” historical inaccuracies.
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A thorough defeat.
- The debate team got a drubbing from the competition.
- Leighton Baines's deflected free-kick added yet more late gloss to the drubbing, the Everton player celebrating his first competitive start with England's first goal direct from a free-kick since David Beckham scored against Ecuador at the 2006 World Cup.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。