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- pronunciation:
- staem
pid
- parts of speech:
- noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb)
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
the sudden, hurried, panicked mass movement of a large group of animals, esp. horses or cattle.
A lightning strike is believed to have started the cattle stampede.- similar words:
- bolt, flight
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| definition 2: |
any similar movement or rush of a crowd.
Many spectators were injured in the stampede as they attempted to flee the crumbling stadium.- similar words:
- dash, rout, rush, scramble
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| definition 3: |
a sudden rapid mass movement or change.
The book attempts to explain this stampede toward conservatism.- similar words:
- dash, rush, surge, tidal wave, wave
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| related words: |
dash |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
stampedes, stampeding, stampeded |
| definition: |
to move or participate in or as if in a stampede.
The frightened horses stampeded.- similar words:
- bolt, flee
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to cause to move in or as if in a stampede.
The fire stampeded the horses.- similar words:
- panic, rout, scatter
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| definition 2: |
to rush on, to, or into (a place).
Excited fans stampeded the gates.- similar words:
- charge, engulf, overrun, rush, storm, swamp
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| related words: |
panic, rout |
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