The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rout \Rout\, v. t. [A variant of root.] To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow. To rout out
To turn up to view, as if by rooting; to discover; to find.
To turn out by force or compulsion; as, to rout people out of bed. [Colloq.]
Usage examples of "to rout out".
He licked his fingers and wiped them clean on the grass, then dug around with a fingernail to rout out a piece of meat stuck somewhere in the back of his mouth.
I spoke more fiercely than I felt, mostly to rout out the uncertainty I heard creeping into Liew's voice.
He waved the driver to a halt, shouted to rout out his tank crews.
Cini drove the wagon while Zazio took the car to rout out Dino for muscle.
It always seemed to me almost a pity to rout out this asylum of praying and charitable women, whose occupation was the encouragement of beggary and idleness in others, but whose prayers were constant, and whose charities to the sick of the little city were many.