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  • noun Plural form of rout.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rout.

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Examples

  • The Trojans, who were impressive in routs of Virginia and then-No.

    Oregon State takes down No. 1 Southern California 27-21 2008

  • Georgia Tech, which averaged 51 points and 342 yards rushing in routs of Notre Dame and Samford, managed just 63 yards on the ground.

    USATODAY.com - College Football - Boston College vs. Georgia Tech 2006

  • The SEC's BCS record is 11-4, best of all of the major conferences, including blowout victories in its last four BCS games, two of those national-title routs of Ohio State.

    Who's College Football's No. 2? 2008

  • More worrying are the long-term routs; the extended periods of time where the market loses a third, half, or even more of its value, over a period of months or years.

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  • He saw retreats that History called routs, and routs that he had seen History calling retreats.

    Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • Victor's name routs him, and leaves a clear field.

    Quiet Talks on Prayer 1897

  • At the beginning of the next turn, there is a phase for compulsory moves such as routs, return to own lines, walk about 1, walk about 2, rally etc.

    More In The Grand Manner Der Alte Fritz 2009

  • In his youth he attended balls and "routs" whenever possible and when fighting French and Indians on the frontier he felt as one of his main deprivations his inability to attend the "Assemblies."

    George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

  • We hear of the gentlemen and dames going to "routs" in their sedan chairs, much as they did in the old country: arriving at eight -- they kept better hours than our modern fashionable people -- they would dance the staid and stately minuet and the gayer contra-dance, to the music mainly of fiddles, till midnight, and then separate, horrified at the lateness of the hour.

    The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle

  • In Bath, too, the mayor, Mr. Harington, is troubled by the influx of Gallic artists and dancing-masters, especially as they mix in all the "routs," and dare even there to whisper treason against

    William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

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