STAMPEDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stampede mean? 

• STAMPEDE (noun)
  The noun STAMPEDE has 2 senses:

1. a headlong rush of people on a common impulse

2. a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle)

  Familiarity information: STAMPEDE used as a noun is rare.

• STAMPEDE (verb)
  The verb STAMPEDE has 4 senses:

1. cause to run in panic

2. cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively

3. act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse

4. run away in a stampede

  Familiarity information: STAMPEDE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAMPEDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A headlong rush of people on a common impulse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

when he shouted 'fire' there was a stampede to the exits

Hypernyms ("stampede" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Derivation:

stampede (run away in a stampede)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("stampede" is a kind of...):

change of location; travel (a movement through space that changes the location of something)

Derivation:

stampede (cause to run in panic)

• STAMPEDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they stampede    ... he / she / it stampedes   
Past simple: stampeded   
Past participle: stampeded   
-ing form: stampeding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to run in panic

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

Thunderbolts can stampede animals

Cause:

stampede (run away in a stampede)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

stampede (a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

The tavern owners stampeded us into overeating

Cause:

stampede (act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

Companies will now stampede to release their latest software

Hypernyms (to "stampede" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Run away in a stampede

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "stampede" is one way to...):

flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)

"Stampede" entails doing...:

run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)

belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed; step on it (move hurridly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

stampede (a headlong rush of people on a common impulse)

 Context examples 

What are they after? I do not know. They are not after gold. There is no stampede. Besides, they spend plenty of money. But I ask questions no more.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Of course there was a general stampede, and for several minutes everybody seemed to lose their wits, for the strangest things were done, and no one said a word.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

From every side men, women, and children were rushing wildly for shelter, swarming up the staircases and into the caves in a mad stampede.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the afternoon Smoke and Henderson fell foul of each other, and a fusillade of shots came up from the steerage, followed by a stampede of the other four hunters for the deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Sometimes they came upon him, and men faced him like heroes, or stampeded through barbed-wire fences to the delight of the commonwealth reading the account at the breakfast table.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The unrest of the dogs had been increasing, and they stampeded, in a surge of sudden fear, to the near side of the fire, cringing and crawling about the legs of the men.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She learned to look upon danger clear-eyed and with understanding, losing forever that panic fear which is bred of ignorance and which afflicts the city-reared, making them as silly as silly horses, so that they await fate in frozen horror instead of grappling with it, or stampede in blind self-destroying terror which clutters the way with their crushed carcasses.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)