rout sb out
US— phrasal verb with rout uk/raʊt/us/raʊt/verb [ T ] formal
to make someone come out of the place where they are:
His wife had to rout him out of the crowd.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing and extracting
- ablate
- clear the decks idiom
- cream sth/sb off
- descale
- dislodge
- extract
- gouge
- milk
- pull
- pull (sb/sth) out
- pull a gun, knife, etc. on sb idiom
- pump
- removable
- remove
- root
- rout
- scratch
- siphon
- syphon
- take sth away
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Taking things away from someone or somewhere