rout
verb/raʊt/
/raʊt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they rout | /raʊt/ /raʊt/ |
| he / she / it routs | /raʊts/ /raʊts/ |
| past simple routed | /ˈraʊtɪd/ /ˈraʊtɪd/ |
| past participle routed | /ˈraʊtɪd/ /ˈraʊtɪd/ |
| -ing form routing | /ˈraʊtɪŋ/ /ˈraʊtɪŋ/ |
- rout somebody to defeat somebody completely in a competition, a battle, etc.
- The Buffalo Bills routed the Atlanta Falcons 41–14.
Extra Examples- He resigned after being routed in the leadership election.
- The Royalist forces were routed.
- The massed army of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRout is used with these nouns as the object:- army
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.
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