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rout as in:  the team was routed

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    Running in what was celebrated as the best field of high school milers in history, Louie routed them all and smoked the mile in 4:21.  (source)
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    After consulting a tree to ascertain from its lichen which way was south, and taking no lip from the subordinates who ventured to correct him, Colonel Maycomb set out on a purposeful journey to rout the enemy and entangled his troops so far northwest in the forest primeval that they were eventually rescued by settlers moving inland.  (source)
    rout = overwhelming defeat
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    The lords of the Trident have been put to rout.  (source)
    rout = a disorderly retreat
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    Michael is said to have routed armies.  (source)
    routed = defeated in an overwhelming manner
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    Like many of the other houses in Deering Highlands, the property has been boarded up and fenced off ever since the great rout that emptied the area, but Alex shows us a way to sneak in through a loosened plank covering one of the first-floor windows.  (source)
    rout = overwhelming defeat
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    The routings are convoluted to the point of being untraceable.†  (source)
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    Her son had won two great victories, smashing Jaime Lannister in the Whispering Wood and routing his leaderless host outside the walls of Riverrun in the Battle of the Camps, but from the way some of his bannermen spoke of him, he might have been Aegon the Conqueror reborn.  (source)
    routing = defeating in an overwhelming manner
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    They understand nothing about warfare, they simply go on and let themselves be shot down. A single flyer routed two companies of them for a joke, just as they came fresh from the train—before they had ever heard of such a thing as cover.  (source)
    routed = sent running (in disorderly retreat)
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    It was a complete rout.  (source)
    rout = an overwhelming defeat
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    "Uh, thanks," said Colin, and Mr. Lyford ran off into the distance, weaving through the forest in search of more, fresher routings.†  (source)
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    His fleet was burned, his army routed.  (source)
    routed = defeated in an overwhelming manner
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    By noon or shortly thereafter the rout was over, the day lost for the Americans.  (source)
    rout = an overwhelming defeat
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    And probably—certainly—ways to avoid betrayal while speeding up routings.†  (source)
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    Then he went back and crept in through the Front Gate and routed out all the halls, and lanes, and tunnels, alleys, cellars, mansions and passages.  (source)
    routed = searched
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    Buck made his hole in the snow and slept the sleep of the exhausted just, but all too early was routed out in the cold darkness and harnessed with his mates to the sled.  (source)
    routed = made to get up
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    When they put the extension in the barn, they routed the line there first.†  (source)
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    Underneath that it said, "Antoine Thomas throws for 3 TDs, runs for 2, in 30-0 rout."†  (source)
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    Media inquiries were never routed to Kohler's office, so the incoming calls could only be one thing.†  (source)
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    Vince had created a "mesh 911" text address, routing it into the cell phones of Sergeant Williams' group.†  (source)
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    The harts and hinds in their herds, the boars in their singulars, the skulks of foxes, the richesses of martens, the bevies of roes, the cetes of badgers and the routs of wolves—all came to him more or less as something which you either skinned or flayed and then took home to cook.†  (source)
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    I'd hoped that if he saw our left collapse, he might plunge into the gap, eager for a rout.†  (source)
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    He puts Enrique with four immigrant men being routed to Orlando, Florida.†  (source)
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    He continued routing his phone calls through Mercer House and dictating letters that were typed at home on his engraved stationery.†  (source)
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    I predict from all this an avalanche of dinners and routs.†  (source)
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    The Monroe Journal wrote: Too many of these rout-of-town; writers express open scorn for the people and institutions they encounter here, making no more than a superficial effort to gather facts.†  (source)
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    "Anyway my plane got re-routed—" she took a gulp of her coffee, wordlessly offered the cup to me, want some?†  (source)
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