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rut
1[ ruht ]
noun
- a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- any furrow, groove, etc.
- a fixed or established mode of procedure or course of life, usually dull or unpromising:
to fall into a rut.
verb (used with object)
- to make a rut or ruts in; furrow.
rut
2[ ruht ]
noun
- the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
verb (used without object)
- to be in the condition of rut.
rut
1/ °ùÊŒ³Ù /
noun
- a groove or furrow in a soft road, caused by wheels
- any deep mark, hole, or groove
- a narrow or predictable way of life, set of attitudes, etc; dreary or undeviating routine (esp in the phrase in a rut )
verb
- tr to make a rut or ruts in
rut
2/ °ùÊŒ³Ù /
noun
- a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- another name for oestrus
verb
- intr (of male ruminants) to be in a period of sexual excitement and activity
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of rut2
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of rut1
Origin of rut2
Idioms and Phrases
see in a rut .Example Sentences
There are some small signs of the economy breaking out of its recent rut, especially in the service sector.
To break out of the rut needs a roll of the dice and Holly-Anne says "we were a real risk".
Breaking out of my seasonal rut feels even harder when my social media feeds are flooded with fresh executive orders from our new president—many of them harming the most vulnerable.
The long-derelict hotel has been brought back to life, new coastal paths have been laid out, a previously rutted car park has been fixed and new businesses and jobs have opened up.
So there is a way in which all three of these characters are stuck in some kind of a rut, and they do, in fact, get out of it in some way.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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