stampede

Noun a stampede to the exits a stampede to buy the stock a stampede of new applicants Verb People stampeded to the exits. The gunshot stampeded the cattle.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Derechos are fueled by different factors and behave more like a stampede of wildebeests than a bloat of hippopotamuses. — Megan Molteni, Wired, "Why Derechos Are So Devilishly Difficult to Predict," 14 Aug. 2020 Last year, in late July, whale watchers spotted a similar stampede off the coast of Laguna Beach. — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, "Watch This Mesmerizing Stampede of 300 Dolphins Off the Coast of California," 14 Aug. 2020 His tweet went up in the midst of increasing tensions between the U.S. and Iran and ahead of the death of more than 50 people in a stampede during Suleimani’s funeral procession. — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, "Happily Never After," 10 Aug. 2020 Seventeen other people were injured by gunfire that night, as well as more than two dozen who sustained injuries in the stampede that followed. — Claire Colbert, CNN, "Dayton will mark mass shooting anniversary virtually amid Covid-19 pandemic," 4 Aug. 2020 If that happened, of course, there would be a stampede out of funds and possible financial panic as funds had to liquidate investments to cover the withdrawals. — Washington Post, "The Fed interest rate cuts are costing money fund investors billions a year," 10 July 2020 Ronnie Crocker, who spent years writing about beer for the Houston Chronicle and now is the editor of the Beaumont Enterprise, remembers the stampede on the rare occasion an Astro came through with a timely homer. — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, "The legend of the Astros' free beer 'Foamer Nights'," 29 June 2020 Similarly, Tiz the Law owner Jack Knowlton had been bracing for a stampede. — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, "Injuries to rivals help elevate Tiz the Law in diminished Belmont Stakes," 20 June 2020 After the emergency alert, a man on roller skates approached Griffin and told him that police officers, state troopers, and National Guard soldiers were assembling nearby: the crackdown would be violent, and the ensuing panic could cause a stampede. — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, "The Heart of the Uprising in Minneapolis," 15 June 2020 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb As the began stampeding across Maryland in recent weeks, scientists tucked away in a University of Maryland research lab in Baltimore got an idea about how to put their high-tech robots to use. — Meredith Cohn, Washington Post, "With help of robots, Maryland medical school to vastly expand state’s testing for coronavirus — if swabs can be found," 19 Apr. 2020 As the coronavirus now stampedes across Britain and much of the world, Mr. Johnson is heeding the same principle, spurning the mass closures that have become commonplace across Europe and gambling his political future on a more restrained approach. — Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, "As Europe Shuts Down, Britain Takes a Different, and Contentious, Approach," 13 Mar. 2020 Earlier this month, there was a rout when mutual funds had to sell municipal bonds to raise cash when herds of investors started stampeding to redeem their shares. — New York Times, "Stock Markets in Asia Climb After U.S. Rally: Live Updates," 27 Mar. 2020 When markets are stampeding, anyone can get run over. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "The Virus and the Economy," 28 Feb. 2020 Guests stampeded the security Doors were set to open around 6 a.m. but actually opened closer to 7 a.m., when hundreds of fans were already waiting on the campgrounds to enter. — Lindsay Weinberg, Billboard, "7 Behind-the-Scenes Moments from Kanye West's Coachella Church Service," 21 Apr. 2019 Without a deal over the weekend between Russia and Saudi Arabia to cut crude oil output, already-spooked stocks were stampeded by a potential deluge of oil. — Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, "Coronavirus, Markets, Prince Harry: Your Monday Evening Briefing," 9 Mar. 2020 In the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, people desperate for food stampeded, pushing through a gate at a district office in the Kibera slum. — Matt Sedensky, Anchorage Daily News, "Known deaths from the coronavirus worldwide top 100,000," 10 Apr. 2020 That sent the already jittery financial markets stampeding downward. — Patrick J. Lyons, New York Times, "Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today," 9 Mar. 2020

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stampede

noun

English Language Learners Definition of stampede

(Entry 1 of 2)

: an occurrence in which a large group of frightened or excited animals or people run together in a wild and uncontrolled way to escape from something, get out of a place, etc.

: a situation in which a lot of people try to do the same thing at the same time

stampede

verb

English Language Learners Definition of stampede (Entry 2 of 2)

: to run away in a large group from something especially because of fear

: to cause (animals) to run away in a large group

: to cause (a person or a group of people) to do something suddenly and without proper thought

See the full definition for stampede in the English Language Learners Dictionary

stampede

noun

stam·pede | \ stam-ˈpēd