stampede
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /stæmˈpiːd/
stampede (plural stampedes)
- A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
- She and her husband would join in the general stampede.
- A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to go in the same direction at the same time.
- The annual Muslim Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is attended by millions of pilgrims, has increasingly suffered from stampedes.
- (figurative) Any sudden unconcerted moving or acting together of a number of persons, as from some common impulse.
- a stampede toward US bonds in the credit markets
- French: bousculade, débandade
- German: Stampede
- Italian: fuggifuggi, scompiglio
- Portuguese: debandada
- Russian: пани́ческое бе́гство
- Spanish: estampida
- French: bousculade
- German: Massenpanik, Stampede
- Russian: да́вка
- Spanish: estampida, desbandada
stampede (stampedes, present participle stampeding; past and past participle stampeded)
- (intransitive) To run away in a panic; said of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
- (transitive) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219 ↗:
- Cattle are usually quiet after dark. Still I've known even a coyote to stampede your white herd.
- (of people) To move rapidly in a mass.
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