noun, verb
noun [C,usually sing.]
1 a situation in which a group of people or large animals such as horses suddenly start running in the same direction, especially because they are frightened or excited:
A stampede broke out when the doors opened.
2 a situation in which a lot of people are trying to do or achieve the same thing at the same time:
Falling interest rates has led to a stampede to buy property.
Part of speech: verb
1 (of large animals or people) to run in a stampede; to make animals do this:
[V] a herd of stampeding elephants * A huge bunch of kids came stampeding down the corridor. [also VN]
2 [VN] [usuallypassive] ~ sb (into sth / into doing sth) to make sb rush into doing sth without giving them time to think about it:
I refuse to be stampeded into making any hasty decisions.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for stampede is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is stampede a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, stampede is tagged as verb.
Does stampede appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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