Rout

Definition: Rout

Rout

Noun

1. A disorderly crowd of people.

2. An overwhelming defeat.

Verb

1. Cause to flee.

2. Dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles".

3. Make a groove in.

4. Defeat disastrously.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rout" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Rout

Agitation

Turbulence, perturbation; commotion, turmoil, disquiet; tumult, tumultuation; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus.

Cleanness

Rout out, clear out, sweep out; make a clean sweep of.

Commonalty

Mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.

Failure

Repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit, subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate.

Printing

Verb: print; compose; put to press, go to press; pass through the press, see through the press; publish; bring out; appear in print, rush into print; distribute, makeup, mortise, offset, overrun, rout.

Sociality

Party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione, soiree, matin_e; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_e, dish of tea, ridotto, rout; housewarming; ball, festival; smoker, smoker-party;sociable, stag party, hen party, tamasha; tea-party, tea-fight. (amusement); " the feast of reason and the flow of soul ".

Success

Defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset, override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat, put out of court.

Crosswords: Rout

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived (Dead Poets Society; writing credit: Tom Schulman)

Out and Out Rout (1966)

Rout of the Filipinos (1899)

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Books

• Ettie : a life of Ettie Rout (reference)

• Fadeyev: The Rout (Razgrom) (reference)

• Riot, Rout, and Tumult: Readings in American Social and Political Violence (reference)

• The Rout (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Rout of the Clones [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Terrible rout & total destruction of the Whig Party. In Salt River. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He endeavours to hold the army, he calls them back, he reproaches them, he grapples with the rout.

Any allusion made to his father by a fellow or by a master put his calm to rout in a moment

The gods must be proud, thought I, with such forked flashes to rout a poor unarmed fisherman

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Economic History

Lebanon

Heavy fighting took place in the "War of the Camps" in 1985 and 1986 as the Shi'a Muslim Amal militia sought to rout the Palestinians from Lebanese strongholds. (references)

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

The PPP had its roots in the labor movement and was in the forefront of national policy prior to independence, winning elections from 1957 through 1966. With the development of a more conservative black middle class, however, the party began to steadily lose support, until it collapsed after a rout in the 1979 elections. (references)

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Expressions using "rout": axial rout ♦ put to rout ♦ put to the rout ♦ revel rout ♦ rout about ♦ rout cake ♦ rout out ♦ rout up ♦ scenic rout ♦ To put to rout ♦ To rout out. Additional references.

Beginning with "rout": rout-furniture.

Ending with "rout": Rabble-rout, Revel-rout.

Albanian

rrëmoj (delve, dig, dive, ferret about, ferret out, forage, Mold, mole, mould, rummage, scavenge, search), vë përpara (haze, March, prefix), turmë (bevy, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, drove, flock, herd, horde, huddle, jam, mob, press, rabble, rat race, ruck, throng), shpartalloj (crush, discomfit, hammer, scatter, shatter, smash, whitewash), shpartallim (debacle, thrashing), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), sasi e madhe (avalanche, bagful, bulk, deal, heap, load, mint, ream), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), madhësi (bulk, dimension, ensemble, gauge, greatness, largeness, loftiness, magnificence, magnitude, majesty, operand, quantity, size), gërmoj (break ground, cave, dig, dig out, dig up, excavate, grub, hollow out, Mold, mole, mould, pick, poke about), disfatë (bad luck, baffle, defeat, defection, discomfiture, licking, loss, overturn, reverse), dëboj (banish, cast out, deport, evict, excommunicate, exile, expel, hoot, laugh off, proscribe, rase, raze, send off, send packing, throw out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crash, crush, defeat, double, fold, fraction, fracture, fracturing, infringe, pleat, shatter, shattering, smash, smashing, tuck, vanquish, violate), ‏هزيمة منكرة (whitewash), ‏هزيمة (beating, debacle, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, licking, overthrow, repulse, reverse, thrashing, trimming, wall), ‏هزم كليا, ‏تجمع غير شرعي, ‏طرد (banish, banishment, bounce, bouncer, cashier, cast out, chuck, deport, deportation, disgrace, dislodge, dismiss, dismissal, dispossess, dispossession, disqualification, drive out, drum, eject, ejection, eliminate, elimination, evaporate, evict, eviction, expel, expulsion, fence, fight down, get off, hunt, in order of the boot, oust, ouster, pitch, poke, put out, removal, remove, repel, sack, scat, send, send packing, sending away, shake, shrift, sling out, spurn, throw out, toss, toss out, turf, turf out, turn away, turn off, turn out), ‏إكتشف (be discovered, bring to light, come to light, detect, dig out, discover, figure out, find, find out, get wind of, glean, hit, learn, nose, rummage, search, spot, strike, uncover, unearth), ‏إستقبال (desk, levee, pickup, reception), ‏إضطراب (coil, disorder, distraction, disturbance, dust, flurry, flutter, ill, nervousness, perturbation, ramp, ruction, ruffle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, uproar), ‏أيقظ (arouse, awake, awaken, awoken, call, raise, rattle, rouse, wake, wake up, waken), ‏شغب (disorder, disturbance, niggling, riot, rowdyism, tumult, turbulence). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нарушение на обществения ред (affray, nuisance), погром (pogrom), прием (do, levee, party, reception, sherry-party), безредици (commotion, disorder, distemper, trouble, tumult), безредно бягство, безредно отстъпление, изплашена тълпа, навалица (crowd, jam, melee, throng), сбирщина (congeries, mob, olio, omnium gatherum, ragbag), вечеринка (sociable, social, soiree), тълпа (cloud, concourse, cram, crowd, crush, drove, herd, host, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble, resort, ruck, shoal, squash, throng, train, troop), тържество (exercises, fiesta, function, gala, solemnity), разбунтувана тълпа, разгром (debacle, fall), разгромявам, бъркотия (bungle, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter). (various references)

Chinese 

溃败. (various references)

Czech

rozprášit (break up, disperse), zdrcující porážka, vyhnat (discomfit, eject, expel, oust, spring, sprout, throw out, turn out), srocení (tumult), sbìh (concourse, crowd, row), obrátit na útìk, útìk (elopement, escape, flight, getaway, run, scape). (various references)

Danish

fraese. (various references)

Dutch

frezen (cut). (various references)

Farsi 

کاملاشکست دادن , گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Company, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Flock, Gang, Group, Kind, Outfit, Pack, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team, Throng), تارومارکردن , جمع (Aggregate, Mass, Plural, Summation, Tale, Tot, Total), بی نظمی واغتشاش , بطوراشفته گریزاندن , باپوزه کاویدن . (various references)

Finnish

jyrsiminen (ripping, routing). (various references)

French

renverser, réception (reception room), trouble, mettre en déroute, fraiser, déroute, débâcle, attroupement illégal, émeute. (various references)

German

Rotte (band, bevy, gang, herd, horde, pack, rank, sounder, squad, troop). (various references)

Greek 

κατατρόπωση, κατατροπώ (crush), προσάγω (adduce, adduct), πανωλεθρία (calamity, catastrophe, debacle, havoc, wrack and ruin), φραιζάρω, φυγή (flight, hegira, scuttle), εκρίζω (eradicate, extirpate, grub, stub, uproot), εκγλύφω, ήττα (defeat, discomfiture, loss, reverse, vanquishment), οχλαγωγία (commotion, hubbub, riot, row, scrimmage, tumult, turmoil, uproar). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"ומ�" (ado, bedlam, din, disturbance, fracas, mess, muss, pandemonium, riot, ruction, stir, trouble, tumble, turmoil), מ�'פ�" (epidemic, murrain, pestilence, plague), מ� וסת ב�"ל�" (stampede), למ�'ר (cast down, defeat, knife, knock out, overthrow, overturn), ל�"כות שוק על ירך (smite hip and thigh), תבוס�" (beating, checkmate, collapse, defeat, downfall, drubbing, licking, overthrow, setback, thrashing). (various references)

Hungarian

teljes vereség, megfutamodás (cop-out, flight), legyõz (bear down, conquer, defeat, down, get the best of, get the better of, master, outmatch, overcome, overmatch, overplay, overpower, overrule, overtake, overturn, subject, tide over, vanquish, worst), csõdület, csődület (concourse, crowd, hurly-burly, press, throng, tumult), csőcselék (rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff), összesereglik (to congregate, to flock, to flock together, to rout), összejövetel (assembly, bash, bee, clubbing, consort, function, gathering, get together, party, reunion, salon). (various references)

Italian

rotta (broken, course, Lane, route, sea lane), sommossa (insurrection, outbreak, riot, rising, ruction, rumpus, upheaval), sbaragliare (beat), mettere in rotta, disfatta (defeat, overthrow). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

潰走 (stampede). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かいそう (attendance at a funeral, class, fast sailing, forwarding, hierarchy, level, marine plant, petty officer, reburial, reflection, reminiscence, remodelling, reorganization, seaweed, shipping, stampede, stratum). (various references)

Manx

traartys (butchery, depredation, desolation, destruction, devastation, disaster, havoc, massacre, ravage, slaughter, slaughtering), taart (defeat, thirst), scaalheaney (broadcast, broadcasting, diffuse, disband, disperse, scatter), scaalhean (broadcast, dispersion, distribution, scattering), cur fo hart (wipe out). (various references)

Pig Latin

outray.(various references)

Portuguese

tumulto (affray, agitation, bluster, broil, bruit, clamor, clamour, clutter, colorwash, colourwash, combustion, commotion, confusion, disorder, distemper, donnybrook, faction, gale, hubbub, outcry, pandemonium, rampage, riot, ruction, rumpus, scuffle, shindy, stir, tempest, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar), pôr em debandada (stampede), fresar (mill), destroçar (foil, mangle), desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, muddle, mush, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar, upset), desbaratar (disarray, hammer, repulse, smite), derrotar totalmente, derrota (balk, defeat, discomfiture, licking, loss, overthrow, thrashing, upset), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), barulho (ado, blatancy, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, clutter, cracking, din, donnybrook, fracas, fuss, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, jazz, knockabout, noise, pother, racket, rattle, roistering, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, to-do, tumult, uproar), arrancar pela raiz (deracinate, root up, unroot, uproot), alvoroço (ado, affray, agitation, bustle, commotion, donnybrook, flutter, rampage, roughhouse, to-do, tumult). (various references)

Romanian

rãscoli (agitate, disturb, quarry, rake, rummage, stir, turn smth. inside out), râma (Grout, grub, nuzzle, poach), tumult (noise, riotousness, tumult, turmoil), scormoni (dig up, fan, ferret, Grout, poke up, rake, ransack, rummage, scan, scrutinize, search, stir up), pune pe fugã (put to flight), grup gãlãgios, dezordine (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disturbance, disturbances, glory-hole, havoc, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, litter, mess, misrule, motley, riot, riots, rough, topsy turvy, tumble, upset, welter), debandadã (confusion, disorder, helter-skelter, hurry-scurry, scurry, stampede), ceatã (band, cohort, drove, flock, gang, group, knot, order, pack, ring, tribe, troop), bandã (band, binder, bunch, clique, cushion, gang, pack, parcel, ribbon, ring, set, strap, strip, tape, troop), învãlmãşi (clutter, confuse), încãierare (brush, fray, grapple, melee, rough and tumble, row, scramble, scrimmage, scuffle, set to, skirmish, tussle, wrestle). (various references)

Russian 

разгромить (blitz, smash), разгром (debacle, defeat, drubbing, shambles, smash, walloping), разбить наголову (beat the pants off, cut to pieces), разбивать наголову (whomp), шумное сборище, выкапывать (dig from, dig out, disinter, excavate, exhume, grub), выгонять разгром, выгонять (banish, boot round, drive out, expel, fire out, oust, outdrive, send packing), официальный прием (kid-glove affair), обыскивать (ransack, search), незаконное сборище, поднимать с постели, пирушка (carousal, jamboree, kick up, merry-meeting, rant, revel, revelry, spread, sprees, wassail, wingding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

riti (dig, grub), povlačenje (dragging, draw, pull back, recall, retirement, retreat, withdrawal), potući do nogu (cream, skunk, smear), poraz (debacle, defeat, drubbing, reverse, trimming), nagnati u bekstvo, bekstvo (elopement, escape, escapement, getaway, lam). (various references)

Spanish

fuga desordenada, fresado, derrotar (bear down, beat, defeat, destroy, whip), derrota (beating, defeat, licking, reverse). (various references)

Swedish

vild flykt (debacle), slå på flykten. (various references)

Turkish

kabul töreni (initiation, levee), hezimet, hengâme (ballup, jungle, rat race, ruckus, ruction, shambles, tailspin, tumult, turmoil, uproar), gürültücü topluluk (gaggle), eşelemek (disinter, dredge up, forage, grub, grub up, root, scratch about), darmadağın etmek (clutter, clutter up, send things flying, snafu), düzensiz kalabalık, bozguna uğratmak (beat smb. hollow, put to flight, put to rout, slaughter, trounce), bozgun (beating, cropper, debacle, defeat, discomfiture, fiasco, stampede, upset), aramak (be on the look-out for, be spoiling for, call, comb, comb out, gun for, have a look-see, Hunt, hunt after, hunt for, hunt out, look, look for, Miss, poke, prospect, quest, rummage, scout about, scout around, search, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, try to find, woo), araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, forage, fossick, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quarry, quest, rake, research, research into, root, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey). (various references)

Ukrainian

розгромити вщент, гамір (ballyhoo, clutter, noise, oration, rumpus), набрід (canaille, raff, rag-tag), безліч (a lot of, abundance, army, array, bag, bagful, barrel, bushel, cumulus, dozens, host, infinite, lashings, legion, lots of, multitude, number, numbers, ocean, oodles, orb, orgy, pack, plenty, reams, ruck, scores, shoal, shower, ton, variety, vast, wealth, wilderness, world), погнати (flight). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự rối loạn (confusion, convulsion, disorder, disorderliness, misrule, muss, turmoil, turn-up, welter). (various references)

Welsh

chwalfa (upset). (various references)

aversa, aversae, aversi, aversum, aversus, avertam, avertantur, avertas, avertat, avertatur, averte, avertebant, avertens, avertent, avertente, avertentem, avertentur, avertere, averterem, averterentur, averteret, averteris, averterit, averterunt, avertes, avertet, avertetur, averti, avertis, avertissem, avertisset, avertisti, avertit, avertite, avertitque, avertuntur, effugatur, effugaverunt, fuderit, fuderunt, fudit, fuga, fugabatur, fugabit, fugabitur, fugabunt, fugabuntur, fugat, fugata, fugati, fugatos, fugatusque, fugaverant, fugaverunt, fugavi, fugavit, fugavitque, fugent, fugere, fundam, fundamini, fundant, fundas, fundat, fundatur, funde, fundebat, fundebatur, fundenda, fundendum, fundens, fundent, fundentes, fundentque, funderetur, fundes, fundesque, fundet, fundetque, fundetur, fundis, fundit, fundite, funditis, fundo, funduntur, fusa, fusae, fusi, fusione, fusis, fusorio, fusum, fusura, fusus, pelle, pellebar, pelles, pelli, pellis, pulso, transfusus, verto. (various references)

route. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rout": route, routed, routeman, routemen, router, routers, routes, routeway, routeways, routh, rouths, routine, routinely, routines, routing, routinization, routinizations, routinize, routinized, routinizes, routinizing, routs. (additional references)

Words ending with "rout": grout, resprout, sprout, trout. (additional references)

Words containing "rout": autoroute, autoroutes, crouton, croutons, drouth, drouthier, drouthiest, drouths, drouthy, grouted, grouter, grouters, groutier, groutiest, grouting, grouts, grouty, misroute, misrouted, misroutes, misrouting, nonroutine, nonroutines, reroute, rerouted, reroutes, rerouting, resprouted, resprouting, resprouts, sprouted, sprouting, sprouts, subroutine, subroutines, troutier, troutiest, trouts, trouty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rout" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Crout, dout, drout, frout, oret, orft, orhoit, orit, orot, Oruc, prout, raoul, raut, Rauta, rautt, reaut, rejut, reour, rfu, ritu, roalt, Roat, roath, Robt, roct, roduct, roet, roft, roht, roit, roity, rolt, romt, romusha, ronuk, rooty, rort, rott, rou, roua, rouat, roub, rouch, rouf, roug, rouj, roul, roum, roun, rounty, roush, routd, routh, Routly, routw, routy, Rowatt, rowt, Ruog, ruota, ruto, rutt, Ru'uf, ruut, vout, wrout. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tour.

-1 letter: ort, our, out, rot, rut, tor.

-2 letters: or, to, ut.

+1 letter: court, grout, outer, outre, roust, route, routh, routs, stour, torus, tours, trout, tumor, turbo, tutor.

+2 letters: author, brulot, burbot, burton, courts, couter, detour, drouth, fourth, grouts, grouty, ouster, outcry, outers, outran, outrow, outrun, outwar, pouter, prutot, quarto, quoter, ragout, redout, robust, roquet, rotgut, rotund, roupet, rousts, routed, router, routes, rouths, rubato, rubout, runout, souter, sprout, stoure, stours, stoury, stroud, stupor, suitor, tabour, tenour, torous, torque, torula, toured, tourer, touter, trough, troupe, trouts, trouty, tryout, tumors, tumour, turaco, turbos, turbot, turgor, turnon, tussor, tutors, unroot, untorn, untrod, uproot, uptore, uptorn, yogurt.