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.”
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