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Noun rout has 2 senses
- mob, rabble, rout - a disorderly crowd of people
--1 is a kind of crowd
--1 has particulars: lynch mob
- rout - an overwhelming defeat
--2 is a kind of defeat, licking
Verb rout has 4 senses
- rout, rout out, expel - cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves"
--1 is one way to get the better of, overcome, defeat
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- rout, root, rootle - dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles"
--2 is one way to dig, delve, cut into, turn over
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- rout, gouge - make a groove in
--3 is one way to hollow, hollow out, core out
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout - defeat disastrously
--4 is one way to beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to rout his opponent
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