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At that sight the Moors round broke forth in a wild and despairing cry: that cry spread from rank to rank, from horse to foot; the Moorish infantry, sorely pressed on all sides, no sooner learned the disaster than they turned to fly: the rout was as fatal as it was sudden.

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  1. noun A disorderly retreat or flight following defeat.
  2. noun An overwhelming defeat.
  3. noun A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.
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  • Conversazione_, in old English, of course And here, my love, are the ribbons for the maid's caps and sashes; I bought them at Waterloo House, very cheap, and a very pretty candle-light colour Did you speak to them about their gowns Yes, my love; Sally and Peggy have each a white gown, Betty I can lend one of my own The difference between a conversazione and a rout is simply this:--in the former you are expected to talk or listen; but to be too ethereal to eat. —  Newton Forster The Merchant Service
  • I can slip away from the rout, and write the letter myself, which I will send by a porter. —  The King's Own
  • During the rest of his life he never talked, as he had used to do, of "the people": he always said "the rabble," and delighted in quoting every passage of Hudibras in which the rabble-rout is treated as he had come to conclude it ought to be. —  Gryll Grange
  • In short, the rout was universal and complete I soon was left to myself, and easily found means to disengage my bonds. —  The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
  • The knot of roughs who were following us looked on this as a rout, and set up a yell of defiance. —  My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life
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Etymologies (11)

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  1. Middle English route, from Old French, troop, defeat, from Vulgar Latin *rupta, from feminine of Latin ruptus, past participle of rumpere, to break; see reup- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Variant of root2.
  3. Middle English routen, to roar, from Old Norse rauta.

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  1. from Middle English routen, rowten, ruten, from Anglo-Saxon hrūtan, also * hreótan, reótan (preterit reát), make a noise, snore, = OFries. hrūta, rūta = Old Dutch rūten, Middle Dutch ruyten, make a noise, chatter, as birds, = Old High German riuzan, make a noise, weep, etc., = Icelandic rjōta, hrjōta, roar, rattle, snore; cf. Old High German rūzan, rūzzan, rūzōn, Middle High German rūzen, rūssen, make a noise, rattle, buzz, snore, = Icelandic rauta = Swedish ryta, roar, secondary forms of the orig. verb.
  2. from Middle English rowt, rowte; from the verb.
  3. Formerly wrout; a variant of root, formerly wroot: see root.
  4. Formerly also rowt; from Middle English route, rute = Middle Dutch rote, Dutch rot = Middle High German rote, rotte, German rotte = Icelandic rotti = Swedish rote = Danish rode, a troop, band, from Old French route, roupte, rote = Provencal rota, a troop, band, company, multitude, flock, herd, from Middle Latin rupta, also, after Roman, rutta, ruta, rota, a troop, band, properly a division of an army, from Latin rupta, feminine of ruptus (later Italian rotto = Old French rout, roupt), broken, divided, past participle of rumpere, break: see rupture. Cf. rout, rout, route, rote, rut, from the same ult. source.
  5. from Middle English routen, ruten (= Swedish rota = Danish rotte), assemble; from rout, n.
  6. Formerly also rowt; from Middle English route, rute, from Old French route, rote, rute = Provencal Spanish Portuguese rota = Italian rotta, formerly also rotto, a defeat, rout, from Middle Latin rupta, defeat, overthrow, rout, from Latin rupta, feminine of ruptus, broken: see rout, which is in form and source identical with rout, though differently applied.
  7. from rout, n.
  8. from Icelandic hrota, the barnacle-goose, in comp. hrotgas = Norwegian rotgaas = Danish rodgaas (later English dial. (Orkneys) roodgoose), the barnacle-goose. Cf. routherock.
 

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