breeze vs rout

breeze

noun
  • An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel. 

  • A light, gentle wind. 

  • Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength. 

  • Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker. 

  • Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult. 

  • A brief workout for a racehorse. 

  • A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae. 

verb
  • To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion. 

  • To blow gently. 

  • To move casually, in a carefree manner. 

  • To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface. 

  • To buzz. 

rout

noun
  • A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry. 

  • A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo. 

  • The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing. 

  • A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble. 

  • The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating. 

  • An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner. 

  • A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar. 

  • A group of disorganized things. 

verb
  • Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed. 

  • Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout. 

  • Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something). 

  • Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot. 

  • Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root. 

  • Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly. 

  • To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort. 

  • Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out. 

  • Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage. 

  • To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess. 

  • To snore, especially loudly. 

  • To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.). 

  • Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow. 

  • To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till. 

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