| 释义 |
put to routPut to flight; defeat utterly: I once put a gang to rout...- I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life.
- This argument is soon put to rout by the assumption that if the remaining days of a centenarian are a mere repetition of yesterday, what delight can be derived from such a pitiable living?
- The Foundation wants to put to rout what it sees as anti-west bias on college campuses.
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