Rout
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- 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.
- a. disturbance
- b. archaic fuss
- 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>
- 1.
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