Definitions for rut

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rut rut

Spelling: [ruht]

IPA: /rʌt/

Rut is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in rut (rtu).

Definitions for rut

noun

1. a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
2. any furrow, groove, etc.
3. a fixed or established mode of procedure or course of life, usually dull or unpromising:
4. the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a rut or ruts in; furrow.

verb (used without object)

1. to be in the condition of rut.

Origin of rut

First recorded in 1570-80; perhaps variant of route

Examples for rut

It's no secret that the industry is stuck in a bit of a rut.

Prince Arthur could not lift it out of the rut, nor Grandolph either.

Contentment—in a rut—that may be the best way of passing this life, after all.

Once he thought Corinne hit a rut that could have been avoided.

You see, I came on the coach as far as Bayport and then we lost a wheel in a rut.

The business man gets into a rut, and often does not look beyond it.

However, you got the car out of the rut, so perhaps we can proceed on our way now.

Some bison die during the violence of the rut in August; there is intense competition by bears for these rare summer carcasses.

rut they were all accompanied with an ineffable dignity, and an angelic purity.

Yet at least it served to raise our daily lives out of the rut of commonplace.