| 单词 | rout |
| 释义 | rout I. archaic II. 1. a. < succeeded by a rout of rabbis, reverends, and monsignors — Dwight MacDonald > specifically < the butler, the parlormaid, and the rout from belowstairs — J.C.Trewin > b. or route < restless routs of sheep — John Clare > c. < the rout of series of books and pamphlets on the war — Times Literary Supplement > d. < you will not swell the rout of lads that wore their honors out — A.E.Housman > < a vulgar comment … by the common rout — Shakespeare > 2. 3. archaic a. b. < make such a rout about it — Harriet Granville > 4. < foreign potentates at diplomatic routs — Robert Rice > Synonyms: see crowd III. intransitive verb 1. dialect chiefly Britain 2. transitive verb dialect chiefly Britain < have no … inclination to rout out my name to the countryside — R.L.Stevenson > IV. dialect chiefly Britain V. intransitive verb 1. < pigs routing in the earth > 2. < routed in a corner and came back with … thread and needle — G.W.Brace > 3. < carve, rout, shape and grind on this versatile machine — advt > transitive verb 1. a. archaic < routing up the moss … in search of acorns — Peter Beckford > b. (1) (2) 2. a. < whole families are … routed out of house and home — Arthur Murphy > b. < routed … from his garret by loud rings at the bell — Floyd Dell > < routed me out of bed to help place the target — A.C.Fisher > < rout the enemies of Calvinism from the inmost keep of their stronghold — V.L.Parrington > 3. < went … to his cellar and routed out a bottle of port — John Masefield > VI. < this house, with its strange clutter … gives the effect of rout — Howard Griffin > VII. chiefly dialect VIII. 1. < charging tanks put the infantry to rout > < reason had been clearly put to rout by nineteenth-century Romanticism — Edmund Wilson > 2. a. < the battle became a rout, a shambles — American Guide Series: Texas > b. < everybody was for saving his own skin in this frantic rout — L.C.Douglas > c. < the rout of the Democrats … resulted in the candidacy of Republican incumbents — V.O.Key > < most crushing defeat since its 61-0 rout last year > 3. archaic < disordered the rank … whereupon their men were in routs — Mary Wroth > IX. 1. a. < the large and well-mechanized army … had been routed and was in part surrounded — Upton Sinclair > < charged the main body of Russian cavalry … and routed it — Al Newman > b. < suffered the discomfiture of seeing their party routed at the polls — A.N.Holcombe > < the team routed their traditional Thanksgiving Day rivals 41-0 > 2. < virtues are discredited and decency is routed — Frank Mac Shane > Synonyms: see conquer |
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