Routed vs. Rooted: What's the Difference?

Routed and Rooted Definitions
Routed
A disorderly retreat or flight following defeat.
Rooted
The usually underground portion of a plant that lacks buds, leaves, or nodes and serves as support, draws minerals and water from the surrounding soil, and sometimes stores food.
Routed
An overwhelming defeat.
Rooted
Any of various other underground plant parts, especially an underground stem such as a rhizome, corm, or tuber.
Routed
A disorderly crowd of people; a mob.
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Rooted
The embedded part of an organ or structure such as a hair, tooth, or nerve, that serves as a base or support.
Routed
People of the lowest class; rabble.
Rooted
The bottom or supporting part of something
We snipped the wires at the roots.
Routed
A public disturbance; a riot.
Rooted
The essential part or element; the basic core
I finally got to the root of the problem.
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Routed
A fashionable gathering.
Rooted
A primary source; an origin.
Routed
(Archaic) A group of people, especially knights, or of animals, especially wolves.
Rooted
A progenitor or ancestor from which a person or family is descended.
Routed
A road, course, or way for travel from one place to another
The route from Maine to Boston takes you through New Hampshire.
Ocean routes that avoided the breeding grounds of whales.
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Rooted
Often roots The condition of being settled and of belonging to a particular place or society
Our roots in this town go back a long way.
Routed
A highway
Traveled on Route 12 through Michigan.
Rooted
Roots The state of having or establishing an indigenous relationship with or a personal affinity for a particular culture, society, or environment
Music with unmistakable African roots.
Routed
A fixed course or territory assigned to a salesperson or delivery person.
Rooted
The element that carries the main component of meaning in a word and provides the basis from which a word is derived by adding affixes or inflectional endings or by phonetic change.
Routed
A means of reaching a goal
The route to success required hard work.
Rooted
Such an element reconstructed for a protolanguage. Also called radical.
Routed
(Football) A pass pattern.
Rooted
A number that when multiplied by itself an indicated number of times forms a product equal to a specified number. For example, a fourth root of 4 is √2. Also called nth root.
Routed
To put to disorderly flight or retreat
"the flock of starlings which Jasper had routed with his gun" (Virginia Woolf).
Rooted
A number that reduces a polynomial equation in one variable to an identity when it is substituted for the variable.
Routed
To defeat overwhelmingly.
Rooted
A number at which a polynomial has the value zero.
Routed
To dig with the snout; root.
Rooted
The note from which a chord is built.
Routed
To poke around; rummage.
Rooted
Such a note occurring as the lowest note of a triad or other chord.
Routed
To expose to view as if by digging; uncover.
Rooted
To grow roots or a root
Carrot tops will root in water.
Routed
To hollow, scoop, or gouge out.
Rooted
To become firmly established or settled
The idea of tolerance has rooted in our culture.
Routed
To drive or force out as if by digging; eject
Rout out an informant.
Rooted
To plant and fix the roots of (a plant) in soil or the ground.
Routed
(Archaic) To dig up with the snout.
Rooted
To establish or settle firmly
Our love of the ocean has rooted us here.
Routed
To bellow. Used of cattle.
Rooted
To be the source or origin of
"Much of [the team's] success was rooted in the bullpen" (Dan Shaughnessy).
Routed
To send or forward by a specific route.
Rooted
To dig or pull out by the roots. Often used with up or out
We rooted out the tree stumps with a tractor.
Routed
Simple past tense and past participle of route
Rooted
To remove or get rid of. Often used with out
"declared that waste and fraud will be vigorously rooted out of Government" (New York Times).
Routed
Simple past tense and past participle of rout
Rooted
To turn up by digging with the snout or nose
Hogs that rooted up acorns.
Routed
Assigned a route
Rooted
To cause to appear or be known. Used with out
An investigation that rooted out the source of the problem.
Routed
Decisively beaten or defeated
Rooted
To turn over the earth with the snout or nose.
Rooted
To search or rummage for something
Rooted around for a pencil in his cluttered office.
Rooted
To give audible encouragement or applause to a contestant or team; cheer.
Rooted
To give moral support to someone; hope for a favorable outcome for someone
We'll be rooting for you when you take the exam.
Rooted
Having roots, or certain type of roots.
Rooted
Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
She stayed rooted in place.
Rooted
(figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
Rooted
Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
Rooted
Having a root.
Rooted
(slang) In trouble or in strife, screwed.
I am absolutely rooted if Ferris finds out about this
Rooted
Broken, damaged, non-functional.
I'm going to have to call a mechanic, my car's rooted.
Rooted
Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
You are rooted. All your base are belong to us.
Rooted
Simple past tense and past participle of root
Rooted
Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart.
Rooted
Absolutely still;
Frozen with horror
They stood rooted in astonishment