a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder: to put an army to rout; to put reason to rout.
any overwhelming defeat: a rout of the home team by the state champions.
a tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons.
Law. a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a manner that suggests an intention to riot although they do not actually carry out the intention.
a large, formal evening party or social gathering.
Archaic. a company or band of people.
to disperse in defeat and disorderly flight: to rout an army.
to defeat decisively: to rout an opponent in conversation.
repulse,
crush,
finish,
subdue,
expel,
beat,
trounce,
clobber,
overpower,
conquer,
kill,
destroy,
chase,
whip,
vanquish,
transmit,
dispel,
bulldoze,
zap,
cream roussel,
roussillon,
roust,
roustabout,
rouster,
rout,
route,
route 128,
route march,
route one,
route survey 11200–50; (noun) Middle English < Anglo-French rute, Old French route a fraction, detachment < Latin rupta, feminine past participle of rumpere to break; (v.) derivative of the noun
a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
a customary or regular line of passage or travel: a ship on the North Atlantic route.
a specific itinerary, round, or number of stops regularly visited by a person in the performance of his or her work or duty: a newspaper route; a mail carrier's route.
to fix the route of: to route a tour.
to send or forward by a particular route: to route mail to its proper destination.
1175–1225; Middle English: way, course <
Old French <
Latin rupta (
via) broken (road), feminine past participle of
rumpere to break; cf.
rout1 mis·route, verb (used with object), mis·rout·ed, mis·rout·ing.pre·route, verb (used with object), pre·rout·ed, pre·rout·ing.re·route, verb, re·rout·ed, re·rout·ing.
to root: pigs routing in the garden. to poke, search, or rummage.
to turn over or dig up (something) with the snout.
to find or get by searching, rummaging, etc. (usually followed by out).
to cause to rise from bed (often followed by up or out).
to hollow out or furrow, as with a scoop, gouge, or machine.
21540–50; alteration of
root2; compare
Middle Dutch ruten to root out
3before 900; Middle English routen, Old English hrūtan; cognate with Old High German hrūzan
41250–1300; Middle English rowten < Old Norse rauta to bellow; akin to Latin rudere
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The condensate is then supposed to be routed into the pipeline system that delivers the crude to the nearby refinery.
But Bone, when we routed him out, could not promise us any more accommodation than he had so kindly given us the first night.
Instead, he decided to take the rod against Sunni groups, like the Anbar Awakening councils that routed al Qaeda in Iraq in 2007.
But Pratap Rudra, routed repeatedly by his lack of preparedness in a rapidly altering region, had exposed his weaknesses.
law a group of three or more people proceeding to commit an illegal act
archaic a large party or social gathering
(tr) to defeat and cause to flee in confusion
C13: from Anglo-Norman rute, from Old French: disorderly band, from Latin ruptus broken, from rumpere to burst; see route
to dig over or turn up (something), esp (of an animal) with the snout; root
(tr ; usually foll by out or up) to get or find by searching
(tr usually foll by out) to force or drive outthey routed him out of bed at midnight
(tr often foll by out) to hollow or gouge out
(intr) to search, poke, or rummage
the choice of roads taken to get to a place
a regular journey travelled
(capital) US a main road between citiesRoute 66
mountaineering the direction or course taken by a climb
med the means by which a drug or agent is administered or enters the body, such as by mouth or by injectionoral route
to plan the route of; send by a particular route
C13: from Old French rute, from Vulgar Latin rupta via (unattested), literally: a broken (established) way, from Latin ruptus broken, from rumpere to break, burst
When forming the present participle or verbal noun from the verb to route it is preferable to retain the e in order to distinguish the word from routing, the present participle or verbal noun from rout 1, to defeat or rout 2, to dig, rummage: the routeing of buses from the city centre to the suburbs . The spelling routing in this sense is, however, sometimes encountered, esp in American English
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