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Verb: rout out  rawt awt
  1. Compel to leave or emerge from a place, especially by force or pressure
    "The police routed out the protesters";
    - drive out, force out, rouse
     
  2. Cause to flee
    "rout out the fighters from their caves";
    - rout, expel
     
  3. Get or find by searching
    "What did you rout out in the library?";
    - rout up [informal]

Derived forms: routing out, routed out, routs out

See also: drive

Type of: defeat, displace, find, get the better of, move, overcome, regain