route
noun
a course, way, or road for passage or travel.
have routed
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present perfectof route.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Some of these countries have routed doctors’ pay through third-country recruitment firms and rebutted assertions of forced labor by documenting that the Cubans keep their own passports and bank accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
They have beaten everybody, and they have routed Scotland, embarrassed Scotland.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023
The military carried out a massive operation there in 2007 and later claimed to have routed the militants and restored normalcy.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
In the latest fighting, the Houthis have routed government forces and been able to capture strategically important territory.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2020
I am not able to tell you how full of hope, how full of ambition, you have left me,—how totally you have routed the growing despondency against which, unassisted, I struggled in vain.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey
