Meaning of "drub" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DRUB

Probably from Arabic dáraba to beat.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DRUB

drub  [drʌb]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRUB

Drub is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb drub in English.

WHAT DOES DRUB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Buton Rinchen Drub

Buton Rinchen Drub, , 11th Abbot of Shalu Monastery, was a fourteenth-century Sakya master and Tibetan Buddhist leader. Shalu was the first of the major monasteries to be built by noble families of the Tsang Dynasty during Tibet's great revival of Buddhism, and was an important center of the Sakya tradition. Buton was not merely a capable administrator but he is remembered to this very day as a prodigious scholar and writer and is Tibet's most celebrated historian.

Definition of drub in the English dictionary

The first definition of drub in the dictionary is to beat as with a stick; cudgel; club. Other definition of drub is to defeat utterly, as in a contest. Drub is also to drum or stamp.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DRUB

PRESENT

Present

I drub

you drub

he/she/it drubs

we drub

you drub

they drub

Present continuous

I am drubbing

you are drubbing

he/she/it is drubbing

we are drubbing

you are drubbing

they are drubbing

Present perfect

I have drubbed

you have drubbed

he/she/it has drubbed

we have drubbed

you have drubbed

they have drubbed

Present perfect continuous

I have been drubbing

you have been drubbing

he/she/it has been drubbing

we have been drubbing

you have been drubbing

they have been drubbing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I drubbed

you drubbed

he/she/it drubbed

we drubbed

you drubbed

they drubbed

Past continuous

I was drubbing

you were drubbing

he/she/it was drubbing

we were drubbing

you were drubbing

they were drubbing

Past perfect

I had drubbed

you had drubbed

he/she/it had drubbed

we had drubbed

you had drubbed

they had drubbed

Past perfect continuous

I had been drubbing

you had been drubbing

he/she/it had been drubbing

we had been drubbing

you had been drubbing

they had been drubbing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will drub

you will drub

he/she/it will drub

we will drub

you will drub

they will drub

Future continuous

I will be drubbing

you will be drubbing

he/she/it will be drubbing

we will be drubbing

you will be drubbing

they will be drubbing

Future perfect

I will have drubbed

you will have drubbed

he/she/it will have drubbed

we will have drubbed

you will have drubbed

they will have drubbed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been drubbing

you will have been drubbing

he/she/it will have been drubbing

we will have been drubbing

you will have been drubbing

they will have been drubbing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would drub

you would drub

he/she/it would drub

we would drub

you would drub

they would drub

Conditional continuous

I would be drubbing

you would be drubbing

he/she/it would be drubbing

we would be drubbing

you would be drubbing

they would be drubbing

Conditional perfect

I would have drub

you would have drub

he/she/it would have drub

we would have drub

you would have drub

they would have drub

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been drubbing

you would have been drubbing

he/she/it would have been drubbing

we would have been drubbing

you would have been drubbing

they would have been drubbing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you drub
we let´s drub
you drub

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to drub

Past participle

drubbed

Present Participle

drubbing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «DRUB»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «drub» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of drub

bang · beat · best · birch · cane · clobber · club · cudgel · defeat · flog · hammer · hit · knock · lick · master · outclass · overcome · pound · pummel · punch · rout · run rings around · strike · stuff · tank · thrash · thump · tonk · trounce · undo · vanquish · whack · worst

TRANSLATION OF DRUB

Find out the translation of drub to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of drub from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drub» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: drub
• Translator English - Spanish: drub
• English: drub
• Translator English - Hindi: पीटना
• Translator English - Arabic: drub
• Translator English - Russian: drub
• Translator English - Portuguese: drub
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রহার করা
• Translator English - French: rosser
• Translator English - Malay: Drub
• Translator English - German: Drub
• Translator English - Japanese: drub
• Translator English - Korean: 제압
• Translator English - Javanese: Drub
• Translator English - Vietnamese: thoi
• Translator English - Tamil: drub
• Translator English - Marathi: ड्रब
• Translator English - Turkish: dayak atmak
• Translator English - Italian: bastonare
• Translator English - Polish: Drub
• Translator English - Ukrainian: drub
• Translator English - Romanian: drub
• Translator English - Greek: drub
• Translator English - Afrikaans: ranselen
• Translator English - Swedish: drub
• Translator English - Norwegian: drub

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRUB»

Discover the use of drub in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drub and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Mushroom Town

>9 Drub-drub—drub-drub-drub—drub-drub— It was the sound of heels on the Pier. From one end of it to the other they walked, past the recesses and lamp- standards and the bright kiosks where tobacco and confectionery and walking- sticks ...

Oliver Onions, 2012

Business Data Communications and Networking

I. Deals-R-Us Brokers (Part 1) Fred Jones, a distant relative of yours and president of Deals-R-Us Brokers (DRUB), has come to you for advice. DRUB is a small brokerage house that enables its clients to buy and sell stocks over the Internet, ...

Jerry FitzGerald, Alan Dennis, 2009

The microbial sulfur cycle

Despite the presence of four siroheme-[4Fe–4S] cofactors in Drub, the sirohemes bound by DsrA should not be catalytically active, because they are not solvent accessible, and several basic residues important for substrate-binding are ...

Martin G. Klotz, Donald A. Bryant, Thomas E. Hanson

Articles on Tibetan Academics, Including: Buton Rinchen ...

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Hephaestus Books, 2011

The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany

of having the least pretension to originality, will be found a compound, . containing, either distinctly^ two words, to and the imperative, drub, or the imperative in combination with the germination ing. Thus the original letters in a simple state, ...

Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany

of having the least pretension to originality, will be found a compound, containing , either distinctly,, two words, to and the imperative, drub, or the imperative iu combination with the termination ing. Thus the original letters in a simple state, ...

East India Company, 1818

Asiatic Journal

of having the least pretension to originality, will be found a compound, containing , either distinctly, two words, to and the imperative, drub, or the imperative in combination with the termination ing. Thus the original letters in a simple state, ...

Webster's New World Dictionary

drows'iness n. drub (drub) vt. drubbed, drub'bing l< Ar damba, to cudgel] 1 to beat as with a stick 2 to defeat soundly — drub'ber n. — drub'bing n. drudge (druj) n. | ME druggenl one who does hard or tedious work — vi. drudged, drudg'lng to ...

Michael Agnes, 2003

Guidelines for Haz Mat/WMD Response, Planning and Prevention ...

Clandestine drub laboratories by their nature are disguised and are often encountered accidentally in a great variety of situations, including warehouses, store fronts, apartment buildings, single family dwellings, rural outbuildings and even ...

US Fire Administration

Swords from the Sea

The. Drub-Devil. March. Chapter One When the small boat grated on the beach, he jumped over. In the wash he felt the sands of Africa under his feet. Forgetting that he should not do so, he ran the boat's bow up three paces to the edge of dry  ...

Harold Lamb, Howard Andrew Jones, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRUB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drub is used in the context of the following news items.

Braves drub Asheboro

Davidson County Braves coach David Sellers was all smiles Wednesday night and that's because his team is within a game of qualifying for the ... «Lexington Dispatch, Jul 15»

Kessler's son pleads guilty to federal drug charge

“Drub abuse is a huge epidemic in our state and is an equal opportunity destroyer,” Kessler said in a prepared statement. “Being an elected ... «Charleston Gazette, Jul 15»

Minor Leagues: Bluefield trims Burlington; Knights drub Durham

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Bluefield's Nick Sinay hit a two-run home run in the second inning and that was all the Blue Jays needed in a 5-1 victory ... «Burlington Times News, Jul 15»

Piccadilly Cup: Veteran Club drub Royal Greater FC 5-2

Veteran Club drubbed Royal Greater FC 5-2 on Day Two of the ongoing Chandigarh senior state football championship for Piccadilly Cup at ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»

India off to flying start; Sri Lanka drub Bhutan

Hosts outclass Nepal and Bangladesh on day one. India's Arvind A nets in a basket against Bangladesh at the South Asian Basketball ... «Deccan Herald, Jul 15»

Porcello knocked around as Blue Jays drub Red Sox

TORONTO -- Justin Smoak hasn't been a lineup fixture for the power-laden Blue Jays, but his latest performance should earn him a little extra ... «My Fox Boston, Jul 15»

Netherlands women drub India

Indian women crashed out of the quarterfinals in the Hockey World League Semifinals after they were drubbed 7-0 by world champion the ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»

Venkatesh claims 11 wickets as B'lore drub Raichur

Vikram Venkatesh's 11 wicket-haul for the match helped Bangalore City XI inflict an innings and 43 runs defeat on Raichur Zone in the SA ... «Deccan Herald, Jun 15»

Day 1: Thoughts for the day

147 Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia drub No. 9 Carla Suarez Navarro in under an hour? Don't ask me. Even John Isner's match was over before I ... «Wimbledon, Jun 15»

Baarhoongkha drub Tezpur United

KOKRAJHAR, June 24 – Host Baarhoongkha Athletic Club handed a 3-1 drubbing to Tezpur United in today's match of the Assam State ... «Assam Tribune, Jun 15»