Usually means: Overwhelming defeats in competitive contexts.
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  1. routs: Merriam-Webster
  2. routs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. routs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Routs, routs: Wordnik
  5. routs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. routs: Wiktionary
  7. routs: Dictionary.com
  8. routs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. routs: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  (countable, obsolete) A group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in particular (archaic), a group of people accompanying or travelling with someone.
noun:  (countable, archaic) A group of animals, especially one which is lively or unruly, or made up of wild animals such as wolves; a flock, a herd, a pack.
noun:  (countable) A group of disorganized things.
noun:  (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
noun:  (countable, dated) A fashionable assembly; a large evening party, a soirée.
noun:  (countable, archaic) A noisy disturbance; also, a disorderly argument or fight, a brawl; (uncountable) disturbance of the peace, commotion, tumult.
noun:  (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
noun:  (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
noun:  (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
verb:  (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To retreat from a confrontation in disorder.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
verb:  (intransitive, Scotland, archaic) Especially of the sea, thunder, wind, etc.: to make a loud roaring noise; to howl, to roar, to rumble.
noun:  (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
verb:  (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
verb:  (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
noun:  A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
noun:  A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
verb:  (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
verb:  (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
verb:  (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
verb:  (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
verb:  (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
verb:  (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
verb:  (ambitransitive, chiefly Scotland, archaic) To beat or strike (someone or something); to assail (someone or something) with blows.
noun:  (chiefly Scotland, archaic) A violent movement; a heavy or stunning blow or stroke.
noun:  (Scotland, obsolete) The brant or brent goose (Branta bernicla).
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