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rout

1  [rout]
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–noun
1. 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.
2. any overwhelming defeat: a rout of the home team by the state champions.
3. a tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons.
4. the rabble or mob.
5. 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.
6. a large, formal evening party or social gathering.
7. Archaic. a company or band of people.
–verb (used with object)
8. to disperse in defeat and disorderly flight: to rout an army.
9. to defeat decisively: to rout an opponent in conversation.
Origin:
1200–50; (n.) ME < AF rute, OF route a fraction, detachment < L rupta, fem. ptp. of rumpere to break; (v.) deriv. of the n.

Synonyms:
3. swarm, horde. 9. overwhelm, overcome, subdue.

rout

2  [rout] ,
–verb (used without object)
1. to root: pigs routing in the garden.
2. to poke, search, or rummage.
–verb (used with object)
3. to turn over or dig up (something) with the snout.
4. to find or get by searching, rummaging, etc. (usually fol. by out).
5. to cause to rise from bed (often fol. by up or out).
6. to force or drive out.
7. to hollow out or furrow, as with a scoop, gouge, or machine.
Origin:
1540–50; alter. of root 2 ; cf. MD ruten to root out

rout

3  [rout] ,
–verb (used without object) Archaic.
to snore.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME routen, OE hrūtan; c. OHG hrūzan

rout

4  [rout, root] ,Chiefly British Dialect
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
1. to bellow; roar.
–noun
2. a bellow.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME rowten < ON rauta to bellow; akin to L rudere
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rout 1   (rout)   
n.  
    1. A disorderly retreat or flight following defeat.
    2. An overwhelming defeat.
    3. A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.
    4. People of the lowest class; rabble.
    1. A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.
    2. People of the lowest class; rabble.
  3. A public disturbance; a riot.
  4. A company, as of knights or wolves, that are in movement. See Synonyms at flock1.
  5. A fashionable gathering.
tr.v.   rout·ed, rout·ing, routs
  1. To put to disorderly flight or retreat: "the flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun" (Virginia Woolf).
  2. To defeat overwhelmingly. See Synonyms at defeat.

[Middle English route, from Old French, troop, defeat, from Vulgar Latin *rupta, from feminine of Latin ruptus, past participle of rumpere, to break; see reup- in Indo-European roots.]
rout 2   (rout)   
v.   rout·ed, rout·ing, routs

v.   intr.
  1. To dig with the snout; root.
  2. To poke around; rummage.
v.   tr.
  1. To expose to view as if by digging; uncover.
  2. To hollow, scoop, or gouge out.
  3. To drive or force out as if by digging; eject: rout out an informant.
  4. Archaic To dig up with the snout.

[Variant of root2.]
rout 3   (rout, rōōt)   
intr.v.   rout·ed, rout·ing, routs Chiefly British
To bellow. Used of cattle.

[Middle English routen, to roar, from Old Norse rauta.]
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Rout

Rout\ (rout), v. i. [AS. hr[=u]tan.] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer.

Rout

Rout\, n. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. --Shak.

This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. --Sterne.

"My child, it is not well," I said, "Among the graves to shout; To laugh and play among the dead, And make this noisy rout." --Trench.

Rout

Rout\, v. t. [A variant of root.] To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

To rout out (a) To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to find. (b) To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people out of bed. [Colloq.]

Rout

Rout\, v. i. To search or root in the ground, as a swine. --Edwards.

Rout

Rout\, n. [OF. route, LL. rupta, properly, a breaking, fr. L. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break. See Rupture, reave, and cf. Rote repetition of forms, Route. In some senses this word has been confused with rout a bellowing, an uproar.] [Formerly spelled also route.]

1. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] "A route of ratones [rats]." --Piers Plowman. "A great solemn route." --Chaucer.

And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. --Chaucer.

A rout of people there assembled were. --Spenser.

2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.

the endless routs of wretched thralls. --Spenser.

The ringleader and head of all this rout. --Shak.

Nor do I name of men the common rout. --Milton.

3. 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.

thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. --Daniel.

To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. --pope.

4. (Law) 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. --Wharton.

5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. "At routs and dances." --Landor.

To put to rout, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight.

Rout

Rout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Routed; p. pr. & vb. n. Routing.] To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.

That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. --Clarendon.

Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.

Rout

Rout\, v. i. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [obs.] --Bacon.

In all that land no Christian[s] durste route. --Chaucer.
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Language Translation for : rout
Spanish: derrotar,
German: vernichtend schlagen,
Japanese: 完敗する
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rout 
1598, "disorderly retreat," from M.Fr. route "disorderly flight of troops," lit. "a breaking off, rupture," from V.L. rupta "a dispersed group," lit. "a broken group," from L. rupta, fem. pp. of rumpere "to break" (see rupture). The verb is from 1600.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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