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drub verb [ drʌb ]

• hit or beat (someone) repeatedly.
• "he was drubbed with tiresome regularity by his classmates"
Origin: early 17th century: probably from Arabic ḍaraba ‘to beat, bastinado’. The first recorded uses in English are by travellers in the Near East referring specifically to the punishment of bastinado.


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