American English pronunciation
How to pronounce rut
IPA transcription: ['ɹʌt]
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Noun
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a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
“they fell into a conversational rut”
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a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
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applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
Verb
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hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
“furrow soil”
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be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
Usage examples
- Serena, however, decides to keep this truth from Dan a little while longer.
- In truth, a new kind of film.
- Poetry and truth.
- He means that he can't really tell you the truth for PR reasons.
- His proposers were Daniel Rutherford, John Robison, and Alexander Keith.
- That brute of a lad has warmed me nicely.
- Sylvia Foster - Ruthie's grandmother.
- Ultimate truth is chaos with little certainty.
- She was buried in Normanton, Rutland.
- Poetry and truth