drubbing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of drub

noun

1. A severe beating.

   “His mother gave him a drubbing after finding out he'd been stealing.”

   “Yet upon its release in Germany the first world war drama has been at the receiving end of a critical drubbing, with critics complaining that it turns a beloved literary classic into a spectacle “horny for an Oscar”, and military historians bemoaning its “black-and-white” historical inaccuracies.”

2. A thorough defeat.

   “The debate team got a drubbing from the competition.”

   “Leighton Baines's deflected free-kick added yet more late gloss to the drubbing, the Everton player celebrating his first competitive start with England's first goal direct from a free-kick since David Beckham scored against Ecuador at the 2006 World Cup.”

   “In a short speech Sunday night after his party’s drubbing, a downcast Mr. Abascal acknowledged that Mr. Sánchez now had the support to block a new government, and could also be sworn in again with the support of the far-left and the separatist parties, or what he called “the support of communists and terrorists.””

   “Peter Dutton was a disaster for the Liberals, as the election drubbing showed.”