rout

1. 1.

   a disorderly crowd of people

   Synonymsmobrabble

   Broadercrowd

   Narrowerlynch mob
2. 2.

   an overwhelming defeat

   Broaderdefeat

Other forms of rout

plural

routs·

past tense

routed·

present participle

routing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rout

What does rout mean?

rout means "cause to flee". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rout?

rout has 1 syllable: rout. In IPA it is /ˈɹaʊt/.

What is another word for rout?

Close synonyms include rout out, expel, root, rootle, gouge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rout a common word?

rout is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.