1
- a disorderly retreat of defeated troops溃退：
the retreat degenerated into a rout
撤退变成了溃退
mass noun the army was in a state of demoralization verging on rout.部队士气濒临溃散的边缘。
1.1
- a decisive defeat溃败, 大败：
the party lost more than half their seats in the rout.
该党在大败中失去了半数以上的席位。
2
- Law, dated an assembly of people who have made a move towards committing an illegal act which would constitute an offence of riot【律】〈旧〉聚众闹事者。
2.1
- archaic a disorderly or tumultuous crowd of people〈古〉嘈杂的人群; 骚乱闹事的人群; 捣乱分子：
a rout of strangers ought not to be admitted.
不应该准许一帮骚乱闹事的陌生人进去。
3
- Brit. archaic a large evening party or reception〈英, 古〉盛大晚会, 盛大宴会。
with obj.
- defeat and cause to retreat in disorder击溃, 打垮; 使溃退：
in a matter of minutes the attackers were routed.
进攻者几分钟就被击溃了。
短语
put to rout
- put to flight; defeat utterly击溃, 打垮：
I once put a gang to rout.
我曾经打垮过一帮人。
词源
Middle English: ultimately based on Latin ruptus 'broken', from the verb rumpere; sense 1 and the verb （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.
1
- with obj. cut a groove, or any pattern not extending to the edges, in (a wooden or metal surface)在（木料或金属表面）刨槽（或刻纹）：
you routed each plank all along its length.
你按着木板的长度给每块木板刨槽。
2
- another term for ROOT2.同ROOT2.
2.1
- find (someone or something), or force them from a place找到; 搜寻到; 挖掘, 挖出; 撵出：
Simon routed him from the stable.
西蒙把他撵出了马厩。
词源
mid 16th cent. (in sense 2)： alteration of the verb ROOT2. Sense 1 dates from the early 19th cent.