Definitions for routs

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routs rout

Spelling: [rout]

IPA: /raʊt/

Routs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in routs (orstu).

Definitions for routs

noun

1. a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
2. any overwhelming defeat:
3. a tumultuous or disorderly crowd of persons.
4. the rabble or mob.
5. Law. a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a manner that suggests an intention to riot although they do not actually carry out the intention.
6. a large, formal evening party or social gathering.
7. Archaic. a company or band of people.
8. a bellow.

verb (used with object)

1. to disperse in defeat and disorderly flight:
2. to defeat decisively:
3. to turn over or dig up (something) with the snout.
4. to find or get by searching, rummaging, etc. (usually followed by out).
5. to cause to rise from bed (often followed by up or out).
6. to force or drive out.
7. to hollow out or furrow, as with a scoop, gouge, or machine.

verb (used without object)

1. to root:
2. to poke, search, or rummage.
3. to snore.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to bellow; roar.

Origin of routs

1200-50; (noun) Middle English Anglo-French rute, Old French route a fraction, detachment Latin rupta, feminine past participle of rumpere to break; (v.) derivative of the noun

Examples for routs

Well, I like the routs and balls dearly, dearly, but I like something else better.

In ten days Thomas routs Zollicoffer, and then we have and hold Kentucky.

First came the routs and the balls; then, when he had been presented to the husbands, came the dinners.

For what with the routs and the tea drinkings the city is monstrously gay.

True, I shall miss the routs, the life at court, the plays and the gaming.

And none of her other routs from the family enemy had been quite like this one.

He learned in boyhood, and danced at "balls and routs" until he was sixty-four.

And then your routs are so ill conducted, the society so mixed.

Veturius routs and puts to flight the enemy in the first engagement.

All routs, all assemblies, all circles, and all balls were at a stop.