Cheer vs Rout - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between cheer and rout

is that cheer is to infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort while rout is to defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.

cheer

English

Noun

(obsolete) The face.

*:And soo on the morne they were alle accorded that they shold departe eueryche from other / And on the morne they departed with wepynge chere / and euery kny?t took the way that hym lyked best

*, I.50:

*:Heraclitus taking pitie and compassion of the very same condition of ours, was continually seene with a sad, mournfull, and heavie cheere , and with teares trickling downe his blubbered eyes.

(obsolete) One's expression or countenance.

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , V.7:

*:‘thorough evill rest of this last night, / Or ill apayd or much dismayd ye be; / That by your change of cheare is easie for to see.’

(archaic) One's attitude, mood.

*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) VI:

*:And anon he talked with them, and sayde unto them: be of good chere , it is I, be not afrayed.

*Holinshed

*:The parentsfled away with heavy cheer .

(uncountable) A cheerful attitude; gaiety; mirth.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:I have not that alacrity of spirit, / Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.

That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=1, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=“

A cry expressing joy, approval or support such as "hurray".

* (1809-1892)

*:Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street.

A chant made in support of a team at a sports event.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up .

We were cheered by the offer of a cup of tea.

To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.

* Dryden

The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered .

(ambitransitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.

The crowd cheered in support of the athletes.

The crowd cheered the athletes.

Derived terms

* cheerful * cheer on * cheers * cheer up * cheery * in good cheer * wotcher

rout

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) routen, ruten, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.

To snore; snore loudly.

(Chaucer)

To belch.

To howl as the wind; make a roaring noise.

Derived terms

* (cheer)

Noun

(en noun)

A noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult.

* Sterne

This new book the whole world makes such a rout about.

* Trench

"My child, it is not well," I said, / "Among the graves to shout; / To laugh and play among the dead, / And make this noisy rout ."

Snoring.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . More at rush.

Verb

(en verb)

To beat; strike; assail with blows.

Derived terms

* atrout

Noun

(en noun)

A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke.

Etymology 3

1598, "disorderly retreat," from (etyl) route'' "disorderly flight of troops," literally "a breaking off, rupture," from ''rupta'' "a dispersed group," literally "a broken group," from (etyl) ''rupta'', feminine past participle of ''rumpere "to break" (see rupture). The verb is from 1600.

Noun

(en noun)

A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.

* Spenser

A rout of people there assembled were.

A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.

* Spenser

the endless routs of wretched thralls

* Shakespeare

the ringleader and head of all this rout

* Milton

Nor do I name of men the common rout .

* 1663 ,

When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded / With long-ear'd rout , to battle sounded, / And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, / Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;

* 1928 , H. P. Lovecraft, "", Weird Tales , Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:

although there must have been nearly a hundred mongrel celebrants in the throng, the police relied on their firearms and plunged determinedly into the nauseous rout .

The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army.

The rout of the enemy was complete.

* Daniel

Thy army / Dispersed in rout , betook them all to fly.

* Alexander Pope

To these glad conquest, murderous rout to those.

(legal) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.

(Wharton)

A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.

* Landor

at routs and dances

Derived terms

* routous, routously

Verb

(en verb)
To defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.

* Clarendon

That party that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fled.

* 2009 January 30, Adam Entous, " Mitchell warns of setbacks ahead in Mideast talks" (news article), Reuters:

Israel tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip after Hamas routed secular Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and seized control of the enclave in June 2007.

(obsolete) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.

* (rfdate)

In all that land no Christian durste route .

(Francis Bacon)

Etymology 4

Alteration of root.

Verb

(en verb)
To search or root in the ground, as a swine.

(Edwards)

To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

To use a router in woodworking.

Anagrams

* ----