rout-v; 4 Senses

Sense Number 1: cause to flee

Commentary: Includes: ROUT OUT

Examples:
The police officers broke into petitioners' home in the early
morning and routed them from bed.
The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NP
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
rout_out 2, 3

Sense Number 2: gouge, dig with the snout

Commentary: NP1 ROUT (FOR) NP2

Examples:
The pig was routing for truffles.
He routed holes that play straight up the hill.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NP
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 3

Sense Number 3: defeat disastrously

Examples:
He routed the competition at the New Mexico pre-primary
convention.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NP
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 4: get or find by searching

Commentary: Is ROUT OUT/ROUT UP

Examples:
I luckily routed out an old paper that I wrote twenty years ago.
When engaged on the Civil War he routed up a whole shoal of obscure
seventeenth-century papers from Yarmouth.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NP
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
rout_up 1
rout_out 1