tanning vs drubbing

tanning and drubbing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tanning	Yes	No	No	No
drubbing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, drubbing is a hypernym of tanning; that is, drubbing is a word with a broader meaning than tanning:

Other hypernyms of tanning include beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking.

tanning (noun)	drubbing (noun)
making leather from rawhide	the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment	a sound defeat
process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light