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noun
- A state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat
- A disastrous defeat debacle
- A precipitate flight
verb
- To defeat decisively or disastrously
"the discomfiture of seeing their party routed at the polls"
- To put to precipitate flight
- To disorganize completely demoralize
- To drive out dispel
noun
- A crowd of people
- Disturbance
- Fuss
- A fashionable gathering
verb
- To poke around with the snout root
"pigs routing in the earth"
- To search haphazardly
- To come up with uncover
"scouts … routing out new talent"
- To force out as if by digging
- To cause to emerge especially from bed
- To gouge out or make a furrow in (something, such as wood or metal)
- To dig up with the snout
verb
- To low loudly bellow
noun
- A traveled way highway
"the main route north"
- A means of access channel
"the route to social mobility"
- A line of travel course
- An established or selected course of travel or action
- An assigned territory to be systematically covered
"a newspaper route"
idiom
- To force someone to retreat
"They put the enemy to rout."
idiom
- Used to say that a game or contest becomes one in which the winner easily defeats the loser by a large amount
This clue was used on December 13, 2025.
This clue has been used several times with the same answer. It also appeared on these dates:
August 12, 2025