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1. An overwhelming defeat
    
2. [N. Amer] A disorderly crowd of people
   - mob, rabble, scrum [Brit]

1. Cause to flee
   "rout out the fighters from their caves";
   - rout out, expel
    
2. Dig with the snout
   "the pig was routing for truffles";
   - root, rootle
    
3. Cut out a groove or hollow using a sharp implement
   - gouge
    
4. Defeat disastrously
   - spread-eagle [informal], spreadeagle [informal]

Derived forms: routing, routs

Type of: beat, beat out, core out, crowd, crush, cut into, defeat, delve [archaic], dig, get the better of, hollow, hollow out, licking, overcome, shell, trounce, turn over, vanquish

Encyclopedia: Rout