| drub | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, lick, thrash |
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| drubbing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| drudge | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: galley slave, navvy, peon |
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| (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: hack, hacker |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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| drudging | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: laboring, labouring, toiling |
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| drug | (noun) a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic | - |
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| (verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: dose |
| (verb) use recreational drugs | Synonyms: do drugs |
| drugged | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, narcotised, narcotized |
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| drugget | (noun) a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling | - |
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| drugging | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: sedation |
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| druggist | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, chemist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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| drugless | (adjective) without the use of drugs | - |
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| drugstore | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy |
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| druidism | (noun) the system of religion and philosophy taught by the Druids and their rites and ceremonies | - |
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| drum | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drumfish |
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| (noun) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end | Synonyms: membranophone, tympan |
| (noun) a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids | Synonyms: metal drum |
| (noun) a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes | Synonyms: brake drum |
| (noun) the sound of a drum | - |
| (noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: barrel |
| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| (verb) play a percussion instrument | - |
| (verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: beat, thrum |
| drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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| (noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
| (noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
| drumbeater | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: partisan, zealot |
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| drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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| drumfish | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drum |
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| drumhead | (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: summary |
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| (noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: head |
| drumlin | (noun) a mound of glacial drift | - |
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| drummer | (noun) someone who plays a drum | - |
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| drumming | (noun) the act of playing drums | - |
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| drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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| (noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
| drunk | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: gone, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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| (adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: intoxicated |
| (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
| (noun) someone who is intoxicated | - |
| drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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| drunken | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, sottish |
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| drunkenly | (adverb) showing effects of much strong drink | - |
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| drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
| drupaceous | (adjective) of or related to a drupe | - |
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| drupe | (noun) fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube | Synonyms: stone fruit |
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| drupelet | (noun) a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe | - |
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| drusen | (noun) (plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina | - |
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| druthers | (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: preference |
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