- a situation in which somebody is defeated easily and completely in a battle or competition
- Only the skill of the goalkeeper prevented the match from turning into a rout.
- The offensive into rebel-held territory had ended in a rout.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + rout- become
- turn into
- put somebody to
- …
Word OriginMiddle English: ultimately based on Latin ruptus ‘broken’, from the verb rumpere; the current senses (late 16th cent.) are from obsolete French route, probably from Italian rotta ‘break-up of an army’; the other senses are via Anglo-Norman French rute.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See rout in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryput somebody to rout
- (literary) to defeat somebody easily and completely
- They put the rebel army to rout.
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