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• rout — 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… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• rout — rout1 [rout] n. [ME route < OFr, troop, band, lit., part broken off < L rupta: see ROUTE] 1. a disorderly crowd; noisy mob; rabble 2. a disorderly flight or retreat, as of defeated troops [to be put to rout] 3. an overwhelming defeat 4.… …   English World dictionary

• 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.]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• defeat — [n1] overthrow, beating ambush, annihilation, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing*, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess,… …   New thesaurus

• rout — Ⅰ. rout [1] ► NOUN 1) a disorderly retreat of defeated troops. 2) a decisive defeat. 3) archaic a disorderly or tumultuous crowd of people. ► VERB ▪ defeat utterly and force to retreat. ORIGIN obsolete French …   English terms dictionary

• rout — [n] overwhelming defeat beating, clobbering*, comedown, confusion, debacle, disaster, drubbing*, embarrassment, flight, hiding, overthrow, retreat, romp, ruin, shambles, shutout, thrashing, trashing*, upset, vanquishment, walkover*, washout*,… …   New thesaurus

• defeat — de·feat vt [Anglo French defait, past participle of defaire to undo, defeat, from Old French deffaire desfaire, from de , prefix marking reversal of action + faire to do] 1 a: to render null third parties will defeat an attached but “unperfected” …   Law dictionary

• 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. [1913 Webster] That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• rout, route — Rout has several meanings, one of which indicates a way, a course, or a road, the specific meanings of route. Rout is usually pronounced rowt. This is the pronunciation often given route, but the preferred pronunciation of route is root. As a… …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

• rout — index beat (defeat), debacle, defeat, dispel, miscarriage, overcome (surmount), prostration …   Law dictionary

• rout — n *crowd, throng, press, crush, mob, horde rout vb *conquer, vanquish, defeat, subdue, subjugate, reduce, overcome, surmount, overthrow, beat, lick …   New Dictionary of Synonyms