'Rout' definitions:
Definition of 'rout'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
An overwhelming defeat
verb
verb
verb
Make a groove in [syn: rout, gouge]
verb
Defeat disastrously [syn: spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout]
Definition of 'Rout'
From: GCIDE
- Rout \Rout\, v. t. [A variant of root.] To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rout'
From: GCIDE
- Rout \Rout\, v. i. To search or root in the ground, as a swine. --Edwards. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rout'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- A rout of people there assembled were. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people. [1913 Webster]
- the endless routs of wretched thralls. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The ringleader and head of all this rout. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Nor do I name of men the common rout. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. --pope. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. "At routs and dances." --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- To put to rout, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rout'
From: GCIDE
- Rout \Rout\ (rout), v. i. [AS. hr[=u]tan.] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rout'
From: GCIDE
- Rout \Rout\, n. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
- "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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rout'
From: GCIDE
- 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 whole army, that they fied. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rout'
From: GCIDE
- Rout \Rout\, v. i. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- In all that land no Christian[s] durste route. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rout'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- brouhaha,
- bunch,
- bustle,
- cakewalk,
- canaille,
- chase,
- chase out,
- check,
- checkmate,
- churn,
- clamor,
- clobber,
- cloud,
- cluster,
- clutter,
- cohort,
- cohue,
- collapse,
- common ruck,
- commotion,
- confound,
- confusion,
- conquer,
- conquest,
- conturbation,
- cortege,
- court,
- covey,
- cream,
- crowd,
- crush,
- debacle,
- defeasance,
- defeat,
- deluge,
- demolish,
- destroy,
- devastate,
- dig out,
- discomfit,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disorder,
- dispel,
- dispersal,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disturbance,
- do away with,
- do in,
- dregs,
- drive,
- drive out,
- drub,
- drubbing,
- drum out,
- dust,
- ebullition,
- eliminate,
- embroilment,
- entourage,
- eradicate,
- excitement,
- expel,
- exterminate,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgets,
- flap,
- flatten,
- flight,
- flock,
- flocks,
- flood,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutteration,
- foil,
- follower,
- following,
- foment,
- force out,
- freeze out,
- frustration,
- fume,
- fuss,
- galaxy,
- hail,
- harry out,
- heap,
- hiding,
- hive,
- hoi polloi,
- horde,
- host,
- hubbub,
- hunt down,
- hunt out,
- hurly-burly,
- inquietude,
- jam,
- jitters,
- jumpiness,
- knock off,
- lambaste,
- large amount,
- lay waste,
- legion,
- lick,
- licking,
- liquidate,
- lots,
- maelstrom,
- make mincemeat of,
- malaise,
- mangle,
- many,
- mass,
- massacre,
- masses,
- masses of,
- mob,
- moil,
- muchness,
- multitude,
- murder,
- mutilate,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- nest,
- numbers,
- obliterate,
- other half,
- overpower,
- overrun,
- overthrow,
- overwhelm,
- pack,
- panic,
- panoply,
- parasite,
- perturbation,
- plurality,
- polish off,
- press,
- proletariat,
- pulverize,
- push out,
- put down,
- put to flight,
- put to rout,
- quantities,
- quite a few,
- rabble,
- rabblement,
- rag,
- ragtag,
- ragtag and bobtail,
- ravage,
- rebuff,
- repulse,
- restlessness,
- retinue,
- retreat,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- ride roughshod over,
- riffraff,
- roar,
- roil,
- romp,
- rout out,
- row,
- ruck,
- ruin,
- run out,
- satellite,
- scatter,
- scores,
- seethe,
- seething,
- setback,
- shatter,
- shellac,
- shellacking,
- shoal,
- skunk,
- smash,
- smoke out,
- smother,
- spate,
- squash,
- stampede,
- stifle,
- stir,
- subdue,
- subjugate,
- subjugation,
- suite,
- suppress,
- swarm,
- swirl,
- tag,
- thrash,
- thrashing,
- throng,
- tidy sum,
- to-do,
- topple,
- train,
- trample,
- trash,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- trim,
- trounce,
- trouncing,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- unease,
- unrest,
- upset,
- vanquish,
- vanquishment,
- walkaway,
- walkover,
- wallop,
- warming,
- whip,
- wipe out,
- worlds of,
- worst