dig vs rout

dig and rout both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dig	Yes	No	Yes	No
rout	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, rout is a hyponym of dig; that is, rout is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dig:

Other hyponyms of dig include furrow, groove, rut, root, rootle, spade, shovel, trowel, burrow, tunnel.

dig (noun)	rout (noun)
the act of digging	an overwhelming defeat
the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow	a disorderly crowd of people
a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
the site of an archeological exploration

dig (verb)	rout (verb)
get the meaning of something	cause to flee
turn up, loosen, or remove earth	defeat disastrously
create by digging	make a groove in
remove the inner part or the core of	dig with the snout
poke or thrust abruptly
thrust down or into
remove, harvest, or recover by digging
work hard