rout

dialectal, chiefly British

1. intransitive verb

2. :  to low loudly :  bellow —used of cattle

1. intransitive verb

2. 1 :  to poke around with the snout :  root pigs routing in the earth

3. 2 :  to search haphazardly

4. transitive verb

5. 1a archaic :  to dig up with the snoutb :  to gouge out or make a furrow in (something, such as wood or metal)

6. 2a :  to force out as if by digging —usually used with outb :  to cause to emerge especially from bed

7. 3 :  to come up with :  uncover scouts … routing out new talent — Carrie Donovan

1. 1 :  a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat

2. 2a :  a disastrous defeat :  debacleb :  a precipitate flight

1. transitive verb

2. 1a :  to disorganize completely :  demoralizeb :  to put to precipitate flightc :  to defeat decisively or disastrously the discomfiture of seeing their party routed at the polls — A. N. Holcombe

3. 2 :  to drive out :  dispel

1. 1 :  to cause to run away Flood routed people from their homes.

2. 2 :  to defeat completely

1. 1 :  an easy or lopsided defeat We lost 44-0—it was a rout.

2. 2 :  wild confusion or disorderly retreat