0 present participle of stampede
1 When animals or people stampede, they all move quickly in the same direction, often because they are frightened:
Because of the delaying action of the stampeding herd, this too might allow an animal to be caught.
They were moving, actually stampeding, into the cities.
One catastrophe of that kind, the stampeding of one of those shelters, and nobody would any longer dare to go into any of them again.
The mark is that he has not thought about the subject before, otherwise he would not have to consider stampeding or being stampeded.
Even most townsmen would regard it as not very good behaviour to go stampeding through a field of growing corn.
What knocked the bottom out of the market for home produce in the years before the war was the stampeding of it by importers.
In fact, they are stampeding the country into vast expenditure.
I have seen groups of riders stampeding along bridleways and fast cars being driven irresponsibily.
