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31rout — root, rout The OED records two verbs spelt root (and pronounced like boot), and no fewer than ten verbs spelt rout (and pronounced like bout). An overlap occurs in the meaning ‘to poke about’, which can be either root about or rout about, each… …
32rout — rout1 [raut] v [T] to defeat someone completely in a battle, competition, or election rout 2 rout2 n [>C usually singular, U] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: route group of people, defeat , from Latin rupta, from ruptus broken ] a… …
33rout — rout1 [ raut ] noun count usually singular a complete defeat of an opponent in a battle, competition, or election: His touchdown completed the rout in the fourth quarter. rout rout 2 [ raut ] verb transitive to completely defeat someone in a… …
34rout — I [[t]raʊt[/t]] n. 1) a defeat attended with disorderly flight: to put an army to rout[/ex] 2) cvb any overwhelming defeat 3) a tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons 4) law Law. a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons… …
35rout — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a disorderly retreat of defeated troops. 2 a an assemblage or company esp. of revellers or rioters. b Law an assemblage of three or more persons who have made a move towards committing an illegal act. 3 riot, tumult, disturbance,… …
36ROUT — s. m. (On fait sentir le T. Quelques uns prononcent Raout. ) Mot emprunté de l anglais. Assemblée nombreuse de personnes du grand monde. Aller à un rout. Un rout brillant, tumultueux …
37rout — Synonyms and related words: a mass of, a world of, agitation, and bobtail, annihilate, army, attendance, attendant, bafflement, balk, batter, bawl, beat, beating, bellow, best, bevy, bluster, bobbery, body of retainers, boil, boiling, bring down …
38rout — English has two words rout. ‘Disorderly retreat’ [16] comes via archaic French route ‘dispersed group’ and Italian rotta ‘breakage’ from Vulgar Latin *rupta, a noun use of the past participle of Latin rumpere ‘break’ (source of English corrupt,… …
39rout — [[t]ra͟ʊt[/t]] routs, routing, routed VERB If an army, sports team, or other group routs its opponents, it defeats them completely and easily. [V n] ...the Battle of Hastings at which the Norman army routed the English opposition. Syn: defeat N… …
40rout — 1. noun 1) the army s ignominious rout Syn: retreat, flight 2) the game was a rout for the Marlins Syn: crushing defeat, trouncing, annihilation; debacle, fiasco; informal licking, hammering, thrashing, drubbing …
