Drub (verb)
drub
To beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash. / To defeat decisively, as in a game or contest.
1625–35; perhaps by uncertain mediation < Arabic ḍarb blow, beating
Example sentences
“They absolutely drubbed us by 20 points in the match. I’ll never live with the shame.”
Praetorian (adj) (noun) pri-taw-ree-un of or relating to a praetor (a magistrate in the Roman republic). a soldier of the Praetorian Guard (Roman imperial army) First recorded in 1375–1425; late…







