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[编辑] GRE 红宝书

  • n. 大败, 溃败
  • [英] n. 大败, 溃败 ( an overwhelming defeat)
  • [记] 联想记忆: route ( 道路) , 去掉e成rout
  • [例] the total rout of the enemy force

[编辑] Webster Collegiate

I. noun

  • Etymology: Middle English route band, company of soldiers, crowd, from Anglo-French rute band, from Vulgar Latin *rupta, from Latin, feminine of ruptus, past participle of rumpere to break — more at reave
  • Date: 13th century
  • 1. a crowd of people ; throng; specifically rabble 2b
  • 2.
  • 3. a fashionable gathering

II. intransitive verb

  • Etymology: Middle English rowten, from Old Norse rauta; akin to Old English rēotan to weep, Latin rudere to roar
  • Date: 14th century
  • dialect chiefly British to low loudly ; bellow — used of cattle

III. verb

  • Etymology: alteration of [sup]3[/sup]root
  • Date: circa 1564
  • intransitive verb
    • 1. to poke around with the snout ; root <pigs routing in the earth>
    • 2. to search haphazardly
  • transitive verb
    • 1.
      • a. archaic to dig up with the snout
      • b. to gouge out or make a furrow in (as wood or metal)
    • 2.
      • a. to force out as if by digging — usually used with out
      • b. to cause to emerge especially from bed
    • 3. to come up with ; uncover <scouts…routing out new talent — Carrie Donovan>

IV. noun

  • Etymology: Middle French route defeat, perhaps from mettre en route to set going, put into motion
  • Date: 1598
  • 1. a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat
  • 2.
    • a. a disastrous defeat ; debacle
    • b. a precipitate flight

V. transitive verb

  • Date: circa 1600
  • 1.
    • a. to disorganize completely ; demoralize
    • b. to put to precipitate flight
    • c. to defeat decisively or disastrously <the discomfiture of seeing their party routed at the polls — A. N. Holcombe>
  • 2. to drive out ; dispel


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