rout

/raut/
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rout

The home team suffered a humiliating rout in the championship game.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • An overwhelming defeat: A complete and disorderly defeat, especially in battle or competition, often involving a chaotic retreat.
    • A disorderly crowd of people: A large, noisy, and often unruly group of people.

  2. Verb:

    • To defeat disastrously: To defeat an opponent completely and decisively, causing them to flee in disorder.
    • To cause to flee: To force someone or a group to scatter and run away in a panicked and disorganized manner.
    • To dig or root with the snout: (Of an animal, especially a pig) to dig or poke in the ground with its snout in search of food.
Examples of Usage

  • Noun:

    • The battle ended in a complete rout, with soldiers fleeing in every direction.
    • The protest began peacefully but soon turned into a violent rout.

  • Verb:

    • The home team routed their rivals, winning by a score of 10-0.
    • The police successfully routed the demonstrators from the square.
    • The wild boar was routing in the forest floor for acorns.
Advanced Usage

  • "To put to rout": To decisively defeat and cause to flee.

    • The general's strategy put the enemy army to rout.

  • "To rout out": To force someone or something out from a hiding place or entrenched position.

    • The authorities vowed to rout out corruption from the department.
Variants and Related Words
  • Router (n): A power tool used for cutting grooves or shaping edges in wood. (Note: This is a distinct word, but it shares the etymological root related to "hollowing out" or "making a groove," similar to the verb sense of digging.)
  • Root (v): To dig or poke in the ground. "Rout" can be a variant spelling for this specific meaning when referring to animals.
Synonyms
  • Noun (defeat): Debacle, drubbing, thrashing, collapse.
  • Noun (crowd): Mob, rabble, throng, horde.
  • Verb (defeat): Crush, overwhelm, trounce, demolish.
  • Verb (cause to flee): Disperse, scatter, drive off.
Related Phrasal Verbs

  • Rout out: To find and force someone or something to leave a place.

    • It took hours to rout out the last of the insurgents from the caves.

  • Rout up: (Less common) To find or summon someone, often from sleep or inactivity.

    • He was routed up from his bed by the urgent phone call.
Related Idioms

  • To be put to rout: To be utterly defeated and forced into a disorderly retreat.

    • The company's outdated business model was put to rout by new competitors.

  • A rout is on: Indicates that a decisive defeat or a chaotic dispersal is happening.

    • When the star player was injured, a rout was on, and the other team scored five quick goals.
rout

The home team suffered a humiliating rout in the championship game.

Noun
  1. an overwhelming defeat
  2. a disorderly crowd of people
Verb
  1. defeat disastrously
  2. make a groove in
  3. dig with the snout
    • the pig was rooting for truffles
  4. cause to flee
    • rout out the fighters from their caves

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