rout
To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreatTo completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
» The team's defense couldn't prevent the rout.
Meaning
19 senses(transitive)To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
разби́ть на́головуrazbítʹ nágolovu
(England, intransitive, regional)To snore, especially loudly.
(England, intransitive, regional)To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
make a groove in
(Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, transitive)Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
(Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, intransitive)Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
(Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, intransitive)Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
(Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, transitive)To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
dig with the snout
(Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, transitive)Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
(Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, US, transitive)Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
(Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, ambitransitive)Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
(Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, ambitransitive)To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
(Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, intransitive)Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
Examples
2 sentencesThe team's defense couldn't prevent the rout.
The enemy's rout gave us a decisive victory.
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
The noun is derived from Middle English rout, route (“group of people associated with oneThe noun is derived from Middle English rout, route (“group of people associated with one another, company; entourage, retinue; army; group of soldiers; group of pirates; large number of people, crowd; throng; group of disreputable people, mob; riot; group of animals; group of objects; proper condition or manner”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman route, rute, Middle French rote, route, Old French rote, route, rute (“group of people, company; group of armed people; group of criminals; group of cattle”) (modern French route (obsolete)), from Latin rupta (compare Late Latin ruta, rutta (“group of marauders; riot; unlawful assembly”)), the feminine of ruptus (“broken; burst, ruptured”), the perfect passive participle of rumpō (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break; to tear (up)”). The English word is a doublet of route.
The noun is derived from Middle French route (“military defeat; retreat”), from rout, archaic past participle of Middle French, Old French rompre (“to break; to break up, disperse”) (modern French rompre (“to break, snap; to break up (with someone)”)), from Latin rumpere, the present active infinitive of rumpō (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”); see further at etymology 1.
The verb is derived from Middle English routen (“to snore; to grunt, snort; to sleep; to dwell; to settle permanently”), [and other forms], from Old English hrūtan (“to snore; to make a noise”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrūtan (“to snore”), from Proto-Germanic *hrūtaną, *hreutaną (“to snore”), from *hruttōną (“to snore; to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor-, *kr- (“to croak, crow”), *krut- (“to snore; to roar”), probably ultimately imitative.
A variant of wrout, itself a variant of wroot (“to search or root in the ground”) (obsolete), from Middle English wroten (“to search or root in the ground; of a person: to dig earth; of a worm: to slither, wriggle; to corrode; of a worm: to irritate by biting the skin; to destroy (a fortification) by digging or mining”) [and other forms] (whence root), from Old English wrōtan (“to root up or rummage with the snout”). from Proto-West Germanic *wrōtan, from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig with the nose or snout, to root”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“a root”), whence the English nouns wort and root.
Possibly a variant of root (“to dig or pull out by the roots; to abolish, exterminate, root out”), from Middle English wroten; see further at etymology 5. Some recent uses are difficult to tell apart from rout (“of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to search for and find (something)”).
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Forms
routs, routing, routed, routedSynonyms
7 synonyms- cause to flee:rout outexpel
- make a groove in:gouge
- dig with the snout:rootrootle
- defeat disastrously:spread-eaglespreadeagle
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle