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stampede Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 an occasion when many large animals or many people suddenly all move quickly and in an uncontrolled way, usually in the same direction at the same time, especially because of fear:
- Two shoppers were injured in the stampede as shop doors opened on the first day of the sale.
1 When animals or people stampede, they all move quickly in the same direction, often because they are frightened:
- A loud clap of thunder made the herd stampede.
- figurative No amount of pressure will stampede (= force) this committee into making hasty decisions.
2 a situation where a large group of frightened animals, esp. horses or cattle, all run in the same direction:
- fig. A stampede of fans tried to enter the stadium at once.

Nobody was hurt, but the congregation panicked and stampeded for the exit.
They were moving, actually stampeding, into the cities.
When the first rhinoceros stampedes through town, the townspeople have almost no reaction.
Roberts, again, asks a simple question: where was this stampede headed?
There was a particularly effective stampede that gathered in volume and tempo and was loudly applauded by all.
The lob causes the herd to wheel about and begin to stampede.
The teacher started the lesson by improvising a stampede that was musically exciting, and had a sense of mystery.
The performers, as street clowns and acrobats, climbed the fountains and street lamps; curious passers-by joined the procession; the audience multiplied; walking turned into running and finally into a stampede.