From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
rout
n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: mob, rabble, rout]
2: an overwhelming defeat
v 1: cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves"
[syn: rout, rout out, expel]
2: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn:
rout, root, rootle]
3: make a groove in [syn: rout, gouge]
4: defeat disastrously [syn: spread-eagle, spreadeagle,
rout]