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🏳️ To defeat completely 💥 A big defeat 🪚 To cut a channel 👥 A wild crowd 🐗 To dig for food
to rout

to rout

1 9.5
Dig in the ground with the nose to find food, like a pig
  • verb
  • /raʊt/
  • UK
translation icon : hozar
  • What they have not anticipated is that love of existing landscapes can rout any benefits that renewable energy development may promise.

Examples

  • At first, P members bundled off to about sixty feet away but then returned to try to rout the E1s.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Every day he routed this train.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • - We'll rout them out of their houses.

    Solomon and Sheba (1959)

  • Prankish seniors must have set off a stink bomb to rout their own commencement.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The servers will begin to be routed to return to the former www.insidecarolina.com front page, and we'll shift all conversation back to the old forums.

    Blog text (4)

  • "As to why Powhatan did not make a serious effort to rout the colonists, Kelso says, "I don't know."

    Academic text (2006)

  • The 00 designation meant that all paperwork would be routed through Butte.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The farmer noticed the pigs routing through the mud in search of breakfast.

  • If you let the pig rout in the garden, it will dig up your flowers.

  • She watched as the boar began to rout for truffles under the oak trees.

Synonyms

to root
vsto rout
14 9.0

To dig in the ground with the nose, as pigs do

is the same nose searching action but framed as the headword sense
to rustle
vsto rout
9 7.8

To search for food, as wild animals do

focuses more on nose digging for food than broad foraging and gathering
to rootle
vsto rout
  • UK
9.9

To push the nose into the ground to find food, like pigs do

is the same digging action often described for pigs rather than people
to snout
vsto rout
8.1

To look for food by pushing the nose into the ground

is narrower, describing the nose digging action specifically for animals
to rout out
vsto rout
  • UK
5.5

To find something after a careful search

is about a physical nose search for food rather than general thorough searching
to rout up
vsto rout
  • UK
8.4

Find something after searching carefully

describes the animal nose digging action specifically, not general careful searching

Phrasal Verbs

to rout out
1 7.1

To force someone or something out of a place by searching

to rout up
  • UK
8.4

Find something after searching carefully

to rout out
  • UK
5.5

To find something after a careful search

How Intensely

to rout
  • UK
1 9.5
to dig
912 1.0
sniff
84 1.1

Surface Forms

rout infinitive
routed past
routed past participle
routing present participle
routs third person singular

Etymology

Rout as a verb meaning to dig with the snout is easy to remember if you think of the common word root; a pig 'roots' in the ground to find food, so to rout is to dig or search with the snout.