noun, verb
noun [sing.] a situation in which sb is defeated easily and completely in a battle or competition:
Only the skill of the goalkeeper prevented the match from turning into a rout.
IDIOMS
put sb to rout (literary) to defeat sb easily and completely:
They put the rebel army to rout.
verb [VN] to defeat sb completely in a competition, a battle, etc.:
The Buffalo Bills routed the Atlanta Falcons 4114.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rout is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does rout appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — rout appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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