Meaning & use
routed
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Defeated decisively and forced into disorderly retreat, or directed along a particular path or course.
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The home team routed their rivals by thirty points.
Network traffic was routed through a different server after the outage.
A note on using this word
The 'defeat' sense (from 'rout') and the 'direct along a path' sense (from 'route') are unrelated words that happen to share a spelling.
Words with a similar meaning
defeateddirected
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