Drub vs Thump - What's the difference?
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Drub is a related term of thump. As verbs the difference between drub and thump is that drub is to beat (someone or something) with a stick while thump is to hit (someone or something) as if to make a. As a noun thump is a blow that produces a muffled sound.
drub English
Verb
to beat (someone or something) with a stick
to forcefully teach something
to defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush
to criticize harshly; to excoriate
Related terms
* drubbing
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thump English
Noun
( en noun)
a blow that produces a muffled sound
* Tatler
- The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.
the sound of such a blow; a thud
Verb
( en verb)
To hit (someone or something) as if to make a .
* (William Shakespeare)
- These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd .
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 19, author=Jonathan Stevenson, work=BBC
, title= Leeds 1-3 Arsenal
, passage=Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.}}
To thud or pound.
To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Travels and travails
, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
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