rout

rout is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
2. noun. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.
3. transitive verb. To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
4. intransitive verb. To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
5. noun. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.
6. noun. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
7. noun. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.
8. noun. A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.
9. noun. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
10. transitive verb. To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.
11. intransitive verb. To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
12. noun. an overwhelming defeat
13. noun. a disorderly crowd of people

    Synonyms: mob, rabble

14. verb. defeat disastrously

    Synonyms: spreadeagle

15. verb. cause to flee

    "rout out the fighters from their caves"

    Synonyms: expel

16. verb. make a groove in

    Synonyms: gouge

17. verb. dig with the snout

    "the pig was rooting for truffles"

    Synonyms: root, rootle

Synonyms

mob, rabble, spreadeagle, expel, gouge, root, rootle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rout:

outr, toru, tour, trou

Common word forms

routs, routed, router, routes, routing, routous

Words from these letters

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