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Rout is a related term of crush.


In lang=en terms the difference between rout and crush

is that rout is to defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat while crush is to be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force.

As verbs the difference between rout and crush

is that rout is to make a noise; roar; bellow; snort or rout can be to beat; strike; assail with blows or rout can be to defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat or rout can be to search or root in the ground, as a swine while crush is to press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass.

As nouns the difference between rout and crush

is that rout is a noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult or rout can be a violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a stroke or rout can be a troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng while crush is a violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

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.

    • See also

    * (Wood router)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    crush

    English

    (wikipedia crush)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  • * Addison
    • the wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds
  • Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
  • Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
    • A crush at a reception.
  • A violent crowding
  • A crowd control barrier
  • A short-lived infatuation or affection for.
  • The human object of infatuation or affection.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
    • It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush .
  • A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling
  • A party, festive function
  • * 1890 ch 1
    • Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.
  • (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes place in.

    • Derived terms

    * crush hat * crush room * girl crush * man crush

    Verb

    (es)
  • To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass.
    • to crush grapes
    Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, crushed , broken or cut. --Lev. xxii.
  • To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
    • to crush quartz
  • * 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
    • With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.
  • To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
    • ''After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections
  • To oppress or burden grievously.
  • To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
    • The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels
  • To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force
    • an eggshell crushes easily
  • To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
    • She's crushing on him.
  • (sports) to defeat emphatically
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 11 , author=Rory Houston , title=Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland , work=RTE Sport citation , page= , passage=A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn.}}

    Derived terms

    * crusher * crushing * crush on * crush out * crushed sugar * crushed velvet

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