routs in English

noun

1

a disorderly retreat of defeated troops.

the retreat degenerated into a rout

synonyms: retreat, flight

2

an assembly of people who have made a move toward committing an illegal act that would constitute an offense of riot.

3

a large evening party or reception.

I intend to live to be a hundred, and to go to ten thousand routs and balls, and to play cards every night of my life till the year eighteen hundred [it is currently 1712].

verb

1

defeat and cause to retreat in disorder.

in a matter of minutes the attackers were routed

synonyms: put to flight, drive off, scatter, defeat, beat, conquer, vanquish, crush, overpower

2

cut a groove, or any pattern not extending to the edges, in (a wooden or metal surface).

you routed each plank all along its length

noun

retreat, flight
crushing defeat, trouncing, annihilation, debacle, fiasco, licking, hammering, thrashing, drubbing, massacre
rabble, mob

verb

put to flight, spread-eagle, gouge, expel, rootle
put to flight, drive off, scatter, defeat, beat, conquer, vanquish, crush, overpower
spread-eagle, spreadeagle
gouge
expel, rout out
rootle, root

Use "routs" in a sentence

1. Of drunken routs, in which more things were broken than heads and furniture, sister!

2. Bulldogged Laclair throws four TDs, Hillard runs for over 200 yards and Caroline routs Easton

3. We have chosen the routs and adapt them accordingly to the condition of the dog and his holder.

4. The tidings came to him one day that Briant and Meliant were riding through his land with great routs of folk, and were minded to Assiege Pannenoisance; and …

5. Affrays and riots § 870.02: Unlawful assemblies § 870.03: Riots and routs § 870.04: Specified officers to disperse riotous assembly § 870.041: Preservation of the public peace by local authority § 870.042: Designation of local authority § 870.043: Declaration of emergency § 870.044: Automatic emergency measures § 870.045: Discretionary

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