Competition
Synonyms for rout
The synonym for rout recorded in this bank is expel, in the sense "cause to flee". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for rout
- expelverb, in the sense "cause to flee"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and rout carries one sense so far.
cause to flee
Rout out the fighters from their caves.
The true synonym
expel
Same sentence, swapped: Expel out the fighters from their caves.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- gouge
- outdo
- nose
Where rout turns up in the game
rout is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where rout is the trap
- burrowverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is tunnel, in the sense "move through by or as by digging", with rout sitting one tile away.
Play rout
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rout reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other competition words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
rout is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.