| rout | | |
| n. (group) | 1. mob, rabble, rout | a disorderly crowd of people. |
| ~ crowd | a large number of things or people considered together.; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" |
| ~ lynch mob | a mob that kills a person for some presumed offense without legal authority. |
| n. (event) | 2. rout | an overwhelming defeat. |
| ~ defeat, licking | an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest.; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking" |
| v. (competition) | 3. expel, rout, rout out | cause to flee.; "rout out the fighters from their caves" |
| ~ defeat, get the better of, overcome | win a victory over.; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" |
| v. (contact) | 4. root, rootle, rout | dig with the snout.; "the pig was rooting for truffles" |
| ~ cut into, delve, dig, turn over | turn up, loosen, or remove earth.; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" |
| v. (contact) | 5. gouge, rout | make a groove in. |
| ~ core out, hollow out, hollow | remove the interior of.; "hollow out a tree trunk" |
| v. (competition) | 6. rout, spread-eagle, spreadeagle | defeat disastrously. |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
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