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Definition of 'rout'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) rout
a defeat attended with disorderly flight:
to put an army to rout.

2.  rout
any overwhelming defeat.

3.  rout
a tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons.

4.  rout
Law. a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a manner that suggests an intention to riot.

5.  rout
a large, formal evening party or social gathering.

6.  rout
Archaic. a company or band of people.

7. (v.t.) rout
to disperse in defeat and disorderly flight.

8.  rout
to defeat decisively.

9. (v.i.) rout
to root, as swine.

10.  rout
to poke, search, or rummage.

11. (v.t.) rout
to turn over or dig up with the snout.

12.  rout
to find or get by searching, rummaging, etc. (usu. fol. by out).

13.  rout
to cause to rise from bed.

14.  rout
to force or drive out.

15.  rout
to hollow out or furrow, as with a scoop.

16. (v.t.) rout
Chiefly Brit. Dial. to bellow; roar.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME rowten < ON rauta to bellow)

Definition of 'rout'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) mob, rabble, rout
a disorderly crowd of people

2. (verb) rout
an overwhelming defeat

3. (verb) rout, rout out, expel
cause to flee
"rout out the fighters from their caves"

4. (verb) rout, root, rootle
dig with the snout
"the pig was rooting for truffles"

5. (verb) rout, gouge
make a groove in

6. (verb) spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout
defeat disastrously

Definition of 'rout'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) rout
a bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult

2. (noun) rout
a troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng

3. (noun) rout
a disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people

4. (noun) rout
the state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete

5. (noun) rout
a disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof

6. (noun) rout
a fashionable assembly, or large evening party

7. (verb) rout
to roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly

8. (verb) rout
to scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow

9. (verb) rout
to search or root in the ground, as a swine

10. (verb) rout
to break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout

11. (verb) rout
to assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company

Translation of 'rout'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to defeat (an army etc) completely.
Afrikaans: verslaan	Arabic: يَهْزِم العَدو	Bulgarian: разгромявам
Brazilian: derrotar	Czech: porazit na hlavu	German: vernichtend schlagen
Danish: tilføje et knusende neder	Greek: κατατροπώνω	Spanish: derrotar
Estonian: jagu saama, lööma	Farsi: کاملا شکست دادن؛ تار و ما	Finnish: löylyttää
French: mettre en déroute	Hebrew: לְהָבִיס	Hindi: हरा देना
Croatian: potući do nogu, razbiti	Hungarian: legyőz	Indonesian: mengalahkan secara total
Icelandic: gjörsigra	Italian: sbaragliare	Japanese: 完敗する
Korean: 완패시키다	Lithuanian: sutriuškinti	Latvian: satriekt
Malay: kekalahan teruk	Dutch: verpletterend verslaan	Norwegian: slå fullstendig
Polish: rozgromić	Persian: کاملا شکست دادن؛ تار و ما	Pashto: بشپړه ماتی ورکول، تارومار
Portuguese: derrotar	Romanian: a nimici	Russian: разгромить
Slovak: poraziť na hlavu	Slovenian: poraziti	Serbian: poraziti
Swedish: fullständigt besegra	Thai: ตีแตกพ่าย	Turkish: bozguna uğratmak
Taiwanese: 擊潰	Ukrainian: розбити вщент	Urdu: مکمل طور سے شکست دینا
Vietnamese: đánh tan tác	Chinese: 击溃
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