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rout
noun as in overwhelming defeat
verb as in defeat overwhelmingly
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Big tech companies from Apple to Amazon led the rout, their shares having gotten so expensive relative to expected earnings that further price gains became hard to justify.
Stocks and futures are rebounding modestly after Wednesday’s rout, the worst sell-off in the past four months.
Even with this week’s rout, the company’s shares have more than tripled since the April pay cuts.
Today’s rout was a rush to the exit for many of the momentum buyers.
The Nasdaq fell 5% on Thursday, its worst one-day rout since March.
He fought with the Soviets, then led the cavalry and B-52 bombers to rout the Taliban.
It was a cosmic rout, signifying the end of an order, even the death of Spanish football as it is currently played.
The Netherlands won 5-1, in what was perhaps the most startling rout of any top-ranked national team in World Cup history.
And winning Paris for the Socialists despite a national rout counts for a lot.
He raced the other way to make the score 22-0; the rout was on.
Their left was surrounded and annihilated while the centre and right were driven from the field in complete rout.
If the cavalry of the Guard had only charged home the enemy would have been driven off the field in complete rout.
And in that sudden rout of courage and self-respect one conscious thought alone remained.
If you were an only son, it might be your duty to stay; being one of many, 'tis nonsense to make a rout about parting with you.
Success meant the certain loss of one man among four—failure would carry with it a rout and massacre unexampled in modern war.
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On this page you'll find 160 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rout, such as: beating, debacle, disaster, drubbing, embarrassment, and romp.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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