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A sound defeat
Answer for the clue "A sound defeat ", 8 letters:
drubbing
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A severe beating; a bace. 2 A thorough defeat. vb. (present participle of drub English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Gramm's drubbing by Davis in the California primary has badly hurt his campaign. ▪ The Dodgers held first place after a 10-4 drubbing of the Cincinnati Reds. ▪ The Lions took a drubbing from the Eagles last night, losing ...
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drub \Drub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drubbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drubbing .] [Cf. Prov. E. drab to beat, Icel. & Sw. drabba to hit, beat, Dan. dr[ae]be to slay, and perh. OE. drepen to strike, kill, AS. drepan to strike, G. & D. freffen to hit, touch, Icel. drepa ...
Usage examples of drubbing.
Not the drubbing you gave those four hotshots, she thought, and smiled despite herself.
From up here it looks like you're drubbing those little dogies pretty decisively.
His arms and shoulders ached from the drubbings he had taken in his last blade-sparring sessions with Saryn and Ryba in the half darkness of the fifth level of the tower.
After the debacle in Illinois, followed by severe drubbings in the northeastern states where television evangelists had a bit of an image problem, Sweigel had stayed in the race anyway, as a broker for the evangelical vote.
He had had to endure three more drubbings by overzealous MP officers until a special order was circulated explaining the position of Fleet versus Ground Force personnel.
He'd gotten more than a few drubbings at first, but had caught up with most of those in the training company.
His fists clenched as he thought of the verbal drubbings he would administer to the other physicists who had been rash enough to disagree with him.
For you went forth injustice to abate, And for your pains sore drubbings did you get From many a rascally and ruffian crew.
Time and again, just as I was dashing out for something, I would see the father giving Stanley a drubbing with the razor strop, a sight that made my blood boil.