Noun

• S: (n) mob (mob%1:14:00::), rabble (rabble%1:14:00::), rout (rout%1:14:00::) (a disorderly crowd of people)
• S: (n) rout (rout%1:11:00::) (an overwhelming defeat)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) rout (rout%2:33:00::), rout out (rout_out%2:33:00::), expel (expel%2:33:00::) (cause to flee) "rout out the fighters from their caves"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) get the better of (get_the_better_of%2:33:00::), overcome (overcome%2:33:03::), defeat (defeat%2:33:00::) (win a victory over) "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
• S: (v) demolish (demolish%2:33:00::), destroy (destroy%2:33:00::) (defeat soundly and humiliatingly) "The home team demolished the visitors"
• S: (v) beat (beat%2:33:00::), beat out (beat_out%2:33:00::), crush (crush%2:33:00::), shell (shell%2:33:03::), trounce (trounce%2:33:00::), vanquish (vanquish%2:33:00::) (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict) "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
• S: (v) wallop (wallop%2:33:00::) (defeat soundly and utterly) "We'll wallop them!"
• S: (v) down (down%2:33:00::) (bring down or defeat (an opponent))
• S: (v) overrun (overrun%2:33:04::) (seize the position of and defeat) "the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land"
• S: (v) lurch (lurch%2:33:00::), skunk (skunk%2:33:00::) (defeat by a lurch)
• S: (v) rout (rout%2:33:00::), rout out (rout_out%2:33:00::), expel (expel%2:33:00::) (cause to flee) "rout out the fighters from their caves"
• S: (v) upset (upset%2:33:00::) (defeat suddenly and unexpectedly) "The foreign team upset the local team"
• S: (v) nose (nose%2:33:00::) (defeat by a narrow margin)
• S: (v) conquer (conquer%2:33:00::) (overcome by conquest) "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country"
• S: (v) survive (survive%2:42:02::), pull through (pull_through%2:42:00::), pull round (pull_round%2:42:00::), come through (come_through%2:42:00::), make it (make_it%2:42:00::) (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)) "He survived the cancer against all odds"
• sentence frame
• S: (v) rout (rout%2:35:01::), root (root%2:35:00::), rootle (rootle%2:35:00::) (dig with the snout) "the pig was rooting for truffles"
• S: (v) rout (rout%2:35:00::), gouge (gouge%2:35:01::) (make a groove in)
• S: (v) spread-eagle (spread-eagle%2:33:00::), spreadeagle (spreadeagle%2:33:00::), rout (rout%2:33:01::) (defeat disastrously)