Synonyms of the word

rout

• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort.
• v. (intransitive) To snore; snore loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To belch.
• v. (intransitive) To howl as the wind; make a roaring noise.
• n. A noise; a loud noise; a bellowing; a shouting; clamor; an uproar; disturbance; tumult.
• n. Snoring.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To beat; strike; assail with blows.
• n. (now chiefly dialectal) A violent movement; a great or violent stir; a heavy blow; a stunning blow; a…
• n. A troop or group, especially of a traveling company or throng.
• n. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
• n. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion.
• n. The act of defeating and breaking up an army or another opponent.
• n. (law) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with the intent to do a thing which, if…
• n. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.
• v. (transitive) To defeat completely, forcing into disorderly retreat.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
• v. To search or root in the ground, like a pig.
• v. To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
• v. To use a router in woodworking.

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

crowd

• v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
• v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
• v. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
• v. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together.
• v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
• v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
• v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
• v. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
• n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
• n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
• n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
• n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
• n. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
• n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

defeat

• v. (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
• v. (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
• v. (transitive) To nullify.
• n. The act of defeating or being defeated.

delve

• v. (intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To dig, to excavate.
• n. (now rare) A pit or den.

dig

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
• v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
• v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
• v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
• v. To thrust; to poke.
• v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
• n. An archeological investigation.
• n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
• n. A thrust; a poke.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
• n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
• v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
• v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

expel

• v. To eject or erupt.
• v. (obsolete) To fire (a bullet, arrow etc.).
• v. (transitive) To remove from membership.
• v. (transitive) To deport.

gouge

• n. A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
• n. A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
• n. A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
• n. An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
• n. (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
• n. (slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
• n. (slang) An impostor; a cheat.
• v. (transitive) To make a mark or hole by scooping.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
• v. (transitive) To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.

hollow

• n. A small valley between mountains.
• n. A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
• n. (US) A sunken area.
• n. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
• v. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate.
• adj. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
• adj. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
• adj. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
• adj. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
• adj. concave; gaunt; sunken.
• adj. (gymnastics) pertaining to hollow body position.
• adv. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
• v. To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
• interj. Alternative form of hollo.

licking

• n. An act of licking.
• n. (slang) A severe beating.
• n. (slang) A great loss or defeat.
• v. present participle of lick.

mob

• n. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
• n. A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle.
• n. The Mafia, or a similar group that engages in organized crime (preceded by the).
• n. (video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the…
• n. (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
• n. (Australian Aboriginal) A cohesive group of people.
• v. (transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
• v. (transitive) To crowd into or around a place.
• n. (obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
• n. A mob cap.
• v. (transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
• n. mobile phone.

overcome

• v. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To win (a battle).
• v. (intransitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
• v. (transitive, usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
• v. To come or pass over; to spread over.
• v. To overflow; to surcharge.

rabble

• v. (intransitive) To speak in a confused manner; talk incoherently; utter nonsense.
• v. (transitive) To speak confusedly or incoherently; gabble or chatter out.
• n. A mob; a disorderly crowd.
• n. The mass of common people; the lowest class of people.

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

rootle

• v. (of an animal) to dig into the ground, with the snout.

shell

• n. A hard external covering of an animal.
• n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
• n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
• n. The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
• n. The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
• n. The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
• n. A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon…
• n. The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
• n. Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in,…
• n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that…
• n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
• n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
• n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims…
• n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
• n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
• n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
• n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper;…
• n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs…
• n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
• n. An emaciated person.
• n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
• n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
• n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
• n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
• v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
• v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
• v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
• v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
• v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
• v. (topology) To form a shelling.

spread-eagle

• adj. Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.
• adj. (colloquial, humorous) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic.
• adv. With arms and legs extended and spread.
• v. (transitive) To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.
• v. (intransitive) To put one's body in a spread eagle.

spreadeagle

• v. Alternative spelling of spread-eagle.

trounce

• v. (transitive) to win against (someone) by a wide margin; to beat thoroughly, to defeat heavily.
• v. (transitive) to punish.
• v. (transitive) to beat severely; thrash.

vanquish

• v. To defeat, to overcome.