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routing

routing

1 8.3
A very heavy defeat in a game or battle
  • noun
  • /ˈruːtɪŋ/
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Examples

  • His troops had dealt ruthlessly with popular uprisings while routing a succession of Spanish armies.

  • But by noon Gems untrained and outnumbered army was routing and what regular forces he had were defecting to Beazit.

  • There is no way that there can be anything but a complete routing of the politics and the scientists who propose this.

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  • Despite their routing, the ICU leadership survived the Ethiopian advance.

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  • His troops had dealt ruthlessly with popular uprisings while routing a succession of Spanish armies.

  • Oh, by the way, those wars also resulted in: a) the beginnings of a democracy in Iraq, and b) the routing of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the eventual capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden.

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  • The football team celebrated their routing of the rival school in the championship game with a big party.

  • After a dominant performance, the fighters achieved a routing of their opponents, securing their victory in the final round.

  • The general was pleased with the routing of the enemy forces, which led to a swift end to the conflict.

Synonyms

defeat
vsrouting
275 2.5

A loss in a game, match, or election that means you do not win

specifies a decisive or overwhelming kind of loss rather than any loss
rout
vsrouting
12 7.2

A complete defeat in which one side loses badly

is the same meaning but differs in word form
slaughter
vsrouting
8 4.6

A very large defeat in a contest or game

refers to decisive defeat without implying brutality
shellacking
vsrouting
  • Informal
5 8.4

A very big loss in a game, match, or argument

is a neutral term for decisive defeat rather than informal slang
drubbing
vsrouting
4 7.9

A very complete loss in a game or contest

focuses on decisive loss without stressing scale or imagery
thrashing
vsrouting
  • Informal
3 5.4

A heavy defeat in a game or contest

names the same decisive loss in a neutral descriptive way
trouncing
vsrouting
2 7.4

A very strong defeat, usually in a game or election, leaving the loser embarrassed

covers decisive losses broadly, not only sporting contexts
lost battle
vsrouting
1 5.5

A failed attempt to beat an illness or other serious problem

means a decisive defeat in a contest, not just a failed effort

Antonyms

1.0

A win against an opponent or a difficult problem

262 3.3

A great victory or success that brings joy

How Decisive

annihilation
  • NSFW
47 8.1
routing
1 8.3
drubbing
4 7.9
defeat
275 2.5
loss
439 1.4

Surface Forms

routing singular
routings plural

Morphology

routing = rout (transparent) = rout + ing

This is a regular verbal noun formed from rout + -ing, and the defeat meaning is easy to recover from the base verb.

Etymology

Routing for a heavy defeat comes from the old verb rout, which meant to force soldiers to run away or to 'break' their ranks. So a routing is a crushing loss where one side flees in disorder.