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彻底溃败,大败,凑热闹的人,乌合之众,混乱,盛大晚会使溃败,使败逃

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rout \Rout\ (rout), v. i. [AS. hr[=u]tan.]
   To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly. [Obs. or
   Scot.] --Chaucer.

Rout \Rout\, n.
   A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance;
   tumult. --Shak.

         This new book the whole world makes such a rout about.
                                                  --Sterne.

         ``My child, it is not well,'' I said, ``Among the
         graves to shout; To laugh and play among the dead, And
         make this noisy rout.''                  --Trench.

Rout \Rout\, v. t. [A variant of root.]
   To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

   {To rout out}
   (a) To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to
       find.
   (b) To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people
       out of bed. [Colloq.]

Rout \Rout\, v. i.
   To search or root in the ground, as a swine. --Edwards.

Rout \Rout\, n. [OF. route, LL. rupta, properly, a breaking, fr.
   L. ruptus, p. p. of rumpere to break. See {Rupture}, {reave},
   and cf. {Rote} repetition of forms, {Route}. In some senses
   this word has been confused with rout a bellowing, an
   uproar.] [Formerly spelled also {route}.]
   1. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a
      traveling company or throng. [Obs.] ``A route of ratones
      [rats].'' --Piers Plowman. ``A great solemn route.''
      --Chaucer.

            And ever he rode the hinderest of the route.
                                                  --Chaucer.

            A rout of people there assembled were. --Spenser.

   2. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the
      rabble; the herd of common people.

            the endless routs of wretched thralls. --Spenser.

            The ringleader and head of all this rout. --Shak.

            Nor do I name of men the common rout. --Milton.

   3. 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.

            thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to
            fly.                                  --Daniel.

            To these giad conquest, murderous rout to those.
                                                  --pope.

   4. (Law) 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. --Wharton.

   5. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party. ``At routs
      and dances.'' --Landor.

   {To put to rout}, to defeat and throw into confusion; to
      overthrow and put to flight.

Rout \Rout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Routed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Routing}.]
   To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in
   disorder; to put to rout.

         That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally
         routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied.
                                                  --Clarendon.

   Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.

Rout \Rout\, v. i.
   To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to
   collect in company. [obs.] --Bacon.

         In all that land no Christian[s] durste route.
                                                  --Chaucer.

资料来源 : WordNet®

rout
     n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: {mob}, {rabble}]
     2: an overwhelming defeat

rout
     v 1: cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves"
          [syn: {rout out}, {expel}]
     2: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn:
         {root}, {rootle}]
     3: make a groove in [syn: {gouge}]
     4: defeat disastrously [syn: {spread-eagle}, {spreadeagle}]