a situation in which somebody is defeated easily and completely in a battle or competition 溃败；彻底失败 Only the skill of the goalkeeper prevented the match from turning into a rout. 只有守门员的技巧阻止了这场比赛变成溃败。 The offensive into rebel-held territory had ended in a rout. 对叛军领地的进攻以彻底失败告终。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + rout- become
- turn into
- put somebody to
- …
Word OriginMiddle English: ultimately based on Latin ruptus ‘broken’, from the verb rumpere; the current senses (late 16th cent.) are from obsolete French route, probably from Italian rotta ‘break-up of an army’; the other senses are via Anglo-Norman French rute.
Idioms
put somebody to rout
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to defeat somebody easily and completely 彻底打败；使溃败 They put the rebel army to rout. 他们彻底击溃了叛军。