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Overturn vs Rout - What's the difference?

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Overturn is a related term of rout.


In legal|lang=en terms the difference between overturn and rout

is that overturn is (legal) to reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind while rout is (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.

As verbs the difference between overturn and rout

is that overturn is to turn over, capsize or upset (something) while 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.

As a noun 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.

overturn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To turn over, capsize or upset (something)
  • To overthrow or destroy something
  • (legal) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind
  • To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=April 10 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure }}

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    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)

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