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rout as in:  the team was routed

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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)
  • The routings are convoluted to the point of being untraceable.†   (source)
  • And probably—certainly—ways to avoid betrayal while speeding up routings.†   (source)
  • 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
  • His fleet was burned, his army routed.   (source)
    routed = defeated in an overwhelming manner
  • But they, if they meet and defeat a part of our army, are as proud as if they had routed us all, and when defeated they pretend to have been vanquished by us all.   (source)
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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
  • When they put the extension in the barn, they routed the line there first.†   (source)
  • Vince had created a "mesh 911" text address, routing it into the cell phones of Sergeant Williams' group.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • He continued routing his phone calls through Mercer House and dictating letters that were typed at home on his engraved stationery.†   (source)
  • If you have a stumper just forward it, and it'll be routed to whichever of us has the lightest load.†   (source)
  • Underneath that it said, "Antoine Thomas throws for 3 TDs, runs for 2, in 30-0 rout."†   (source)
  • It was December before he mentioned that he'd sent another Personnel Action Form to Washington, asking for transfer to Vietnam; those forms, as many times as he would submit them, were routed through his chain of command—including Major General LaHoad.†   (source)
  • Now the truth seemed obvious: his last words had been just another sleight of hand, and his last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to rout out.†   (source)
  • "A feigned rout is less convincing," his father said, "and I am not inclined to trust my plans to a man who consorts with sellswords and savages."†   (source)
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  • Media inquiries were never routed to Kohler's office, so the incoming calls could only be one thing.†   (source)
  • But the actual beach, the one he and the corporals gazed on now, was no more than a variation on all that had gone before: there was a rout, and this was its terminus.†   (source)
  • "Anyway my plane got re-routed—" she took a gulp of her coffee, wordlessly offered the cup to me, want some?†   (source)
  • It's messy stuff and they would have routed me somewhere over the Baltic Sea, and it would have taken me forty minutes and the lady probably would have died.†   (source)
  • He puts Enrique with four immigrant men being routed to Orlando, Florida.†   (source)
  • We routed them after that!†   (source)
  • In the village of My Khe, as in all of Quang Ngai, patriotic resistance had the force of tradition, which was partly the force of legend, and from his earliest boyhood the man I killed would have listened to stories about the heroic Trung sisters and Tran Hung Dao's famous rout of the Mongols and Le Loi's final victory against the Chinese at Tot Dong.†   (source)
  • This ain't a battle; it's a rout.†   (source)
  • You've already routed them.†   (source)
  • One mysterious phrase called out by an older boy could rout the whole group in shrieks and laughter.†   (source)
  • When the first Soviet officer was halfway down the gangway, he was dazzled by fifty high-intensity television lights and the shouted questions of television reporters routed out of bed to meet the rescue ship and so have a bright piece of Christmas season news for the morning network broadcasts.†   (source)
  • For all he knew, I went around routing attacking vampires every day and the scene in the meadow had been nothing unusual at all.†   (source)
  • The color was light gray, but they knew from Kemp's landlord —they had routed him out of bed at 4 Am.†   (source)
  • But they could not alter the arrangements in time with the civil and military authorities, the public and private corporations, the military band, the School of Fine Arts orchestra, and the schools and religious fraternities, which were prepared for eleven o'clock, so the funeral that had been anticipated as a historic event turned into a rout because of a devastating downpour.†   (source)
  • He pictured his fighting men as bees routing the rabbits.†   (source)
  • Winters, the vice principal, threading between cars, trying to rout out the smokers who don't have time or are too lazy to walk all the way down to the Lounge and instead try to hide out between the teachers' old Volvos and Chevrolets.†   (source)
  • Once, we did take on Tia Flor, who indicated her large house, the well-kept grounds, the stone Cupid who had been re-routed so it was his mouth that spouted water.†   (source)
  • It was as though the Indian blood had routed every trace of the Celtic strain.†   (source)
  • They had a small office at the airport where bags that had been routed to the wrong city or put onto the wrong plane would eventually end up, at which point one of their couriers would deliver them to their proper destination, whether it be a hotel or the bag owner's home.†   (source)
  • And many blacks, so accustomed to being routed by whites, feel a swell of jumbled, out-of-context pride.†   (source)
  • You must be planning to make San Antonio in one day, since you're starting this early," he added, still grumpy from having been routed out of bed.†   (source)
  • All decisions are made through the Inquisitor now, all inquiries and requests routed through her.†   (source)
  • It was a forced march, not a rout, as sometimes portrayed.†   (source)
  • The boy had taken some more losses lately, including a rout at the Manhattan Chess Club, and this was deeply disappointing all around because Father Paulus had appeared.†   (source)
  • The telephone rang in the school office and one of the clerks routed the call to Khanum Shaheen.†   (source)
  • The last battle, before this story opens, and indeed the only one that had ever been fought within the borders of the Shire, was beyond living memory: the Battle of Greenfields, S.R. 1147, in which Bandobras Took routed an invasion of Orcs.†   (source)
  • The cavaliers routed the forces in his parish and plundered his own dwelling of all that was portable—brass, pewter, and cloth.†   (source)
  • Although she could rout her, Jean Louise had not yet learned how to repair the enemy's damage.†   (source)
  • My transport's routed for New York.†   (source)
  • The bloody battle of Tarawa had demonstrated the need for many more Marines trained to rout out well-entrenched Japanese defenders.†   (source)
  • To see the Horde's front lines, an observer might think that the Forest Guard was routing the enemy.†   (source)
  • The blow to the nation's pride caused by the rout of Pakistan's forces during the Kargil Conflict had driven the democratically elected prime minister Nawaz Sharif from office.†   (source)
  • Enraged Texas forces under General Sam Houston pursued and routed the Mexican army at San Jacinto.†   (source)
  • The Attolian army below completed its maneuver as the queen explained to the ambassador that a rout could yet be avoided by a more gracious retreat.†   (source)
  • The merchandise was never received-was never meant to be received-the payments, instead, routed to a bank in Zurich.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, it also routed some of the water her way.†   (source)
  • All intercom and visual circuits between levels were routed through there, as were cables for telephone and teletype from the outside.†   (source)
  • We sent return communication in a similar way, wrapping notes in the same plastic and placing them at the bottom of the mounds of dirty dishes that were routed back to the kitchen.†   (source)
  • That's why I routed in San Antonio as well.†   (source)
  • It turned into a rout, but Cesar celebrated with modest optimism.†   (source)
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