routed

Verb

route (third-person singular simple present routes, present participle routeing or (sometimes in US) routing, simple past and past participle routed)

1. (transitive) To direct or divert along a particular course.
   • All incoming mail was routed through a single office.
2. (Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
3. (transitive) To send (information) through a router.
   • Google Glass has come under fire from privacy advocates because it can record video without subjects being aware of it, and that any video will be routed through Google's servers.2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian

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Verb (1)

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.
   • Whereupon the meaner ſort [of people] routed together, and ſuddenly aſſayling the Earle [i.e., Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland] in his Houſe, ſlew him, and diuers of his ſeruants.1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to move.
   • "Why, God be thanked, ma'am, I'm stout and hearty; and though I say it mysilf, there's not an ould woman in the county can stir about betther nor me, and I'm up ivery mornin' at the peep of day, and rout them all up out of their beds. Don't I?" said she, looking at Mary.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 380

Verb (2)

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)

1. (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
   • [T]hat Party of the King's Horſe which Charged the Scots, ſo totally Routed and defeated their whole Army, that they fled all ways for many Miles together, and were knock'd on the head, and taken Priſoners by the Country, [...]1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, book VIII, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the...
2. (archaic, intransitive) To retreat from a confrontation in disorder.
   • The Ra division broke in panic and fled up against the just-arriving Amon division, which as a result began to rout as well.2005, Brian Todd Carey, “Warfare in the Ancient Near East: The Bronze and Early Iron Ages”, in Warfare in the Ancient World, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, published 2013, →ISBN...

Verb (3)

rout (third-person singular simple present routs, present participle routing, simple past and past participle routed)

1. (England, intransitive, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
2. (England, intransitive, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.

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