1 [count] : a game or contest in which the winner easily defeats the loser by a large amount
▪ The game turned into a rout in the second half. ▪ After they scored their fourth goal, the rout was on. [=the game became a rout] 2 : a confused and disorderly retreat from a place [count] — usually singular ▪ the attack and the rout that followed [noncount] ▪ They put the enemy to rout. [=they forced the enemy to run away]
▪ The game turned into a rout in the second half. ▪ After they scored their fourth goal, the rout was on. [=the game became a rout]







