Utter defeat.
The crossword clue "Utter defeat." is answered by ROUT, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ROUT
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ROUT answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2018; first recorded in 1954. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ROUT
Every other clue in this collection answered by ROUT, most used first.
- Decisive defeat - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Lopsided win - used 51 times, most recently in 2026
- Lopsided victory - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Defeat decisively - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Overwhelming defeat - used 30 times, most recently in 2023
- Drubbing - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Put to flight - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Defeat - used 18 times, most recently in 2002
- Drive out - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Disastrous defeat - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Beat badly - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Decisive victory - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Complete defeat - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Debacle - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
- Defeat soundly - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Overwhelming victory - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Decisive win - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Trounce - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- One-sided victory - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Runaway victory - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Beat soundly - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Crushing defeat - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Landslide - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
- Overwhelm - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Shellacking - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Beat the pants off - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Easy victory - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Major defeat - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- One-sided win - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
- Sound defeat - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Beat decisively - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Blowout - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Easy win - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Vanquish - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Embarrassing defeat - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Resounding defeat - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Win in a runaway - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Defeat - LOSS, used 82 times
- Suffer defeat - LOSE, used 49 times
- Defeat - BEST, used 38 times
- Utter - EMIT, used 37 times
- Defeat soundly - DRUB, used 31 times
- Defeat - BEAT, used 27 times
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