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Synonyms
rout1 (rout)

[Middle English route, from Old French, troop, defeat, from Vulgar Latin* rupta, from feminine of Latin ruptus past participle of rumpere, to break.]

noun 

    1. A disorderly retreat or flight following defeat.
    2. An overwhelming defeat.
    1. A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.
    2. People of the lowest class; rabble.
  3. A public disturbance; a riot.
  4. A company, as of knights or wolves, that are in movement. See synonyms at flock1
  5. A fashionable gathering.

transitive verb: rout·ed, rout·ing, routs. 

  1. To put to disorderly flight or retreat: “the flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun” (Virginia Woolf)
  2. To defeat overwhelmingly. See synonyms at defeat
rout2 (rout)

[Variant of root2.]

verb: rout·ed, rout·ing, routs. 

intransitive verb 

  1. To dig with the snout; root.
  2. To poke around; rummage.

transitive verb 

  1. To expose to view as if by digging; uncover.
  2. To hollow, scoop, or gouge out.
  3. To drive or force out as if by digging; eject: rout out an informant.
  4. Archaic To dig up with the snout.
rout3 (rout, rōōt)

[Middle English routen, to roar, from Old Norse rauta.]

intransitive verb: rout·ed, rout·ing, routs. 

Chiefly British
To bellow. Used of cattle.