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Takes A Drubbing Crossword Clue

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verb

• fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense

• fail to win

• suffer the loss of a person through death or removal

• miss from one's possessions; lose sight of

• allow to go out of sight or mind

• fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit

• fail to get or obtain

• fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

• withdraw, as from reality

• be set at a disadvantage

30%8a complete drubbing
noun

• a sound defeat

• the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

30%9 To give a good drubbing
verb

• strike with a cudgel

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New York Times21 Jun 2002 Down 54
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