Found 2 items, similar to rout.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: rout rout n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: mob, rabble] 2: an overwhelming defeat rout v 1: cause to flee; “rout out the fighters from their caves” [syn: rout out, expel] 2: dig with the snout; “the pig was rooting for truffles” [syn: root, rootle] 3: make a groove in [syn: gouge] 4: defeat disastrously [syn: spread-eagle, spreadeagle]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Rout Rout \Rout\ (rout), v. i. [AS. hr[=u]tan.] To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Rout \Rout\, n. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult. --Shak. [1913 Webster] This new book the whole world makes such a rout about. --Sterne. [1913 Webster] “My child, it is not well,” I said, “Among the graves to shout; To laugh and play among the dead, And make this noisy rout.” --Trench. [1913 Webster] Rout \Rout\, v. t. [A variant of root.] To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow. [1913 Webster] To rout out (a) To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to find. (b) To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people out of bed. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Rout \Rout\, v. i. To search or root in the ground, as a swine. --Edwards. [1913 Webster] Rout \Rout\, n. [OF. route, LL. rupta, properly, a breaking, fr. L. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break. See Rupture, reave, and cf. Rote repetition of forms, Route. In some senses this word has been confused with rout a bellowing, an uproar.] [Formerly spelled also route.] 1. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] ``A route of ratones [rats].'' --Piers Plowman. “A great solemn route.” --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] A rout of people there assembled were. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people. [1913 Webster] the endless routs of wretched thralls. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] The ringleader and head of all this rout. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Nor do I name of men the common rout. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete. [1913 Webster] thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly. --Daniel. [1913 Webster] To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those. --pope. [1913 Webster] 4. (Law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof. --Wharton. [1913 Webster] 5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. “At routs and dances.” --Landor. [1913 Webster] To put to rout, to defeat and throw into confusion; to overthrow and put to flight. [1913 Webster] Rout \Rout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Routed; p. pr. & vb. n. Routing.] To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout. [1913 Webster] That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow. [1913 Webster] Rout \Rout\, v. i. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company. [obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster] In all that land no Christian[s] durste route. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]