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“routs”
1. Mob, rabble.
2. A complete defeat of an opponent in a battle, competition, or election.
3. Etymology: from Middle French route, "host, troop, crowd"; from Old French rote, from Vulgar Latin rupta, "a dispersed group"; literally, "a broken group", from Latin rumpere, "to break".
2. A complete defeat of an opponent in a battle, competition, or election.
3. Etymology: from Middle French route, "host, troop, crowd"; from Old French rote, from Vulgar Latin rupta, "a dispersed group"; literally, "a broken group", from Latin rumpere, "to break".
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rupt-, -rupting, -ruption
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rout, routs; routed; routing (verbs)
To put to flight, the original meaning of the verb rout was "to break the ranks of a troop".
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rupt-, -rupting, -ruption
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