routed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of route.

   The network automatically routed traffic around the failed server.

   Engineers routed the new pipeline through the valley.

   Note

   Route takes the regular -ed ending, and one spelling serves both the simple past (they routed the call) and the participle in perfect and passive frames (traffic was routed around the outage). It collides with the past of "rout," to defeat: same letters, different verb. The object usually settles which is meant. Calls, data and pipelines are routed along a course, while armies and opponents are routed off the field.

2. 2
   SayROW-tidUS/ˈɹaʊtɪd/UK/ˈɹaʊ.tɪd/

   verb

   Simple past and past participle of rout.

   The general routed the opposing forces within hours.

   The challengers were routed in straight sets.

   Note

   In current use this is the past of the transitive verb: someone routed an enemy or a rival team, and in the passive they were routed. Older and regional verbs share the spelling. One is an archaic intransitive meaning to retreat in disorder, others are English dialect senses of snoring or bellowing, and a Scots one describes a roaring sea or wind. In an old text, a sea that routed was making noise, not winning. Context separates it from the past of "route".

3. 3
   SayROW-tidUS/ˈɹaʊtɪd/UK/ˈɹaʊ.tɪd/

   adjective

   Defeated decisively and completely in a battle, contest, or competition.

   The routed battalion scattered into the surrounding hills.

   The routed challengers conceded the championship without protest.

   Similardefeated, beaten, vanquished, crushed

   Oppositevictorious, triumphant

4. 4
   adjectivein compounds

   Assigned a particular path or course to follow.

   Each routed delivery follows the same streets day after day.

   A routed data packet travels only along the paths its headers permit.

   Note

   An adjective that rarely stands alone: it appears chiefly in combination, joined to another word to say how or where something has been given its course. It is also not comparable. A delivery or a packet is routed or it is not, and nothing is "more routed" than something else.

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