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   Rout

   /rout/

   

   noun

   • 1. a disorderly retreat of defeated troops: "the retreat degenerated into a rout" Similar disorderly retreatretreatflightheadlong flight
   • ▪ a decisive defeat: "the party lost more than half their seats in the rout" Similar crushing defeatoverwhelming defeatdefeattrouncingannihilationdebaclefiascoinformal:lickinghammeringclobberingthrashingpastingdrubbinghidingcaningdemolitiongoing-overpoundingmassacreshellackingOpposite victory
   • 2. an assembly of people who have made a move toward committing an illegal act which would constitute an offense of riot. dated
   • ▪ a disorderly or tumultuous crowd of people: archaic "a rout of strangers ought not to be admitted"
   • 3. a large evening party or reception. archaic

   verb

   • 1. defeat and cause to retreat in disorder: "in a matter of minutes the attackers were routed" Similar put to flightput to routdrive offdispelscatterdefeatbeatconquervanquishcrushoverpoweroverwhelmoverthrowsubjugate

   Word Origin Middle English: ultimately based on Latin ruptus ‘broken’, from the verb rumpere; sense 1 and the verb (late 16th century) are from obsolete French route, probably from Italian rotta ‘breakup of an army’; the other senses are via Anglo-Norman French rute.

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