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# rout

«rout» in Mova's school dictionary: **a complete defeat in which the losing side runs away in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (routs); verb (rout, routs, routed, routing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A rout is a complete defeat in which the losing side runs away in confusion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rout/#m1)

2) (verb) To rout someone is to drive them away and defeat them completely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rout/#m2)

3) (verb, with «out») To rout out is to find and drive someone out of hiding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rout/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales of battles, the defeated army or mice scatter in panic; in lessons it names what happens when one side breaks and flees

### examples

- A great rout overwhelmed the Mice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rout/#x1)
- The Mice scattered in rout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rout/#x2)
- The Bull could not rout out the Mouse from its hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rout/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rout» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rout/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.