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mincemeat of, ride roughshod over, demolish, mangle, ravage,
mutilate, flatten, squash, topple, lay waste, wreak havoc
(up)on, ravage, massacre, murder, exterminate, annihilate,
liquidate, smother, stifle, do away with, Slang clobber, do in,
US skunk, Chiefly US and Canadian cream: Queens Park Rangers
routed Manchester United 6-0.
route n. 1 way, itinerary, course, direction, path, road, avenue: If
you have the time, take the scenic route. John's route to the
chairmanship is strewn with his colleagues' corpses.
--v. 2 direct, convey, carry: Goods destined for Cleveland
will be routed through Northampton.
routine n. 1 custom, habit, procedure, practice, method, schedule,
plan, programme, formula, pattern, way, usage, wont, Colloq
chiefly Brit drill: Chalmers has always been a stickler for
routine. What's the routine here when you want to order a new
chair? 2 act, piece, bit, performance, number, part, Colloq
thing, shtick: The fat lady doesn't sing till after Joe Miller
finishes his routine.
--adj. 3 customary, habitual, usual, rote, accustomed,familiar,
conventional, regular, ordinary, everyday; programmed, assigned,
designated, scheduled: Her routine responsibilities include
proofreading. 4 boring, tedious, tiresome, unimaginative,
uninteresting; hackneyed, trite, stereotypic(al), clich‚d,
run-of-the-mill, ordinary; unvaried, unvarying, unchanging,
monotonous, uneventful, rote, automatic, mechanical,
perfunctory: He has a routine job on the assembly line.
rover n. wanderer, bird of passage, itinerant, traveller, rolling
stone, nomad, gypsy, wayfarer, gadabout, sojourner, tourist;
drifter, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, US hobo, bum: He's a born
rover and will never settle down.
row° n. line, rank, tier, bank, string, series, file: A row of
trees serves as a wind-break along one side of the farm.
rowý n. 1 altercation, argument, dispute, quarrel, disagreement,
squabble, spat, tiff, conflict, fracas, Colloq shouting match,
scrap, falling-out, Brit slanging-match: We had a silly row
about where we should spend the Christmas holidays. 2