Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb ring_out
1 sense of ring out
Sense 1
ring out -- (sound loudly; "a shot rang out")
=> make noise, resound, noise -- (emit a noise)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb r_out
4 senses of rout
Sense 1
rout, rout out, expel -- (cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves")
=> get the better of, overcome, defeat -- (win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up")
Sense 2
rout, root, rootle -- (dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles")
=> dig, delve, cut into, turn over -- (turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration")
Sense 3
rout, gouge -- (make a groove in)
=> hollow, hollow out, core out -- (remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk")
Sense 4
spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout -- (defeat disastrously)
=> beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish -- (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game")