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单词 rout
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rout

noun
/raʊt/
/raʊt/
[singular]Idioms
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  1. a situation in which somebody is defeated easily and completely in a battle or competition
    • Only the skill of the goalkeeper prevented the match from turning into a rout.
    • The offensive into rebel-held territory had ended in a rout.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + rout
    • become
    • turn into
    • put somebody to
    • …
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    Word OriginMiddle English: ultimately based on Latin ruptus ‘broken’, from the verb rumpere; the current senses (late 16th cent.) are from obsolete French route, probably from Italian rotta ‘break-up of an army’; the other senses are via Anglo-Norman French rute.
Idioms
put somebody to rout
  1. (literary) to defeat somebody easily and completely
    • They put the rebel army to rout.

rout

verb
/raʊt/
/raʊt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they rout
/raʊt/
/raʊt/
he / she / it routs
/raʊts/
/raʊts/
past simple routed
/ˈraʊtɪd/
/ˈraʊtɪd/
past participle routed
/ˈraʊtɪd/
/ˈraʊtɪd/
-ing form routing
/ˈraʊtɪŋ/
/ˈraʊtɪŋ/
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  1. rout somebody to defeat somebody completely in a competition, a battle, etc.
    • The Buffalo Bills routed the Atlanta Falcons 41–14.
    Extra Examples
    • He resigned after being routed in the leadership election.
    • The Royalist forces were routed.
    • The massed army of conscripts had been enough to rout their opponents.
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryRout is used with these nouns as the object:
    • army
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    Word OriginMiddle English: ultimately based on Latin ruptus ‘broken’, from the verb rumpere; the current senses (late 16th cent.) are from obsolete French route, probably from Italian rotta ‘break-up of an army’; the other senses are via Anglo-Norman French rute.
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