strub

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verb

To rob, plunder; clear out completely; to strip.

OriginMiddle English strupen ← Old English *strȳpan →
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Meanings

strub1

verbstrub (third-person singular simple present strubs, present participle strubbing, simple past and past participle strubbed)

present singular third person strubs · participle present strubbing · participle past strubbed · past strubbed

  1. UKambitransitivedialectalTo rob, plunder; clear out completely; to strip.

    "[…] I mind a year ago, when I found a gladdy's nest and strubbed it, he catched me blowing the eggs to put along with others for a necklace for Jonathan French's sister, and, if he could have done it, he'd have given me a proper hiding."

    1920, Eden Phillpotts, The Thief of Virtue, page 172

Strub2

proper nounStrub (plural Strubs)

plural Strubs

  1. A surname.

Origin

  1. Old English*strȳpan
  2. Middle Englishstrupen
  3. Englishstrub

Origin obscure. Perhaps from Middle English strupen, a variant of strepen (“to strip, rob, plunder”), from Old English *strȳpan (attested in Old English bestrȳpan (“to strip, rob, spoil, bereave”), whence English bestrip). More at strip.

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APA

strub. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strub

MLA

“strub.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strub. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “strub,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strub.

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