ROUT

vi to search or root in the ground, as a swine.

2. rout ·noun a fashionable assembly, or large evening party.

3. rout ·noun a bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.

4. rout ·vt to scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

5. rout ·vi to assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.

6. rout ·noun a troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.

7. rout ·vt to break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.

8. rout ·noun a disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.

9. rout ·vi to roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.

10. rout ·noun 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.

11. rout ·noun 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.