0 past simple and past participle of stampede
1 When animals or people stampede, they all move quickly in the same direction, often because they are frightened:
But we are not prepared to be stampeded into instant solutions or to stand on our heads in an opportunist attempt to buy popularity.
I do not, however, desire to stand in a position to be stampeded.
I have not been stampeded on this matter.
They were made because those who were in charge were stampeded for various reasons into wrong actions.
I do not think that we should be stampeded into adding to the list.
Meanwhile, we shall not be stampeded into any measures before we have had an opportunity to consider the many complex problems involved.
In all this anxiety to scuttle, the alleged goals of privatisation have all been stampeded under foot.
The mark is that he has not thought about the subject before, otherwise he would not have to consider stampeding or being stampeded.
