stampede
verb/stæmˈpiːd/
/stæmˈpiːd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they stampede | /stæmˈpiːd/ /stæmˈpiːd/ |
| he / she / it stampedes | /stæmˈpiːdz/ /stæmˈpiːdz/ |
| past simple stampeded | /stæmˈpiːdɪd/ /stæmˈpiːdɪd/ |
| past participle stampeded | /stæmˈpiːdɪd/ /stæmˈpiːdɪd/ |
| -ing form stampeding | /stæmˈpiːdɪŋ/ /stæmˈpiːdɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] stampede (something) (of large animals or people) to run in a stampede; to make animals do this
- a herd of stampeding elephants
- A huge bunch of kids came stampeding down the corridor.
- The cattle started to stampede, as if they could sense the danger.
- [transitive, usually passive] stampede somebody (into something/into doing something) to make somebody rush into doing something without giving them time to think about it
- I refuse to be stampeded into making any hasty decisions.
Word Originearly 19th cent.: Mexican Spanish use of Spanish estampida ‘crash, uproar’, of Germanic origin; related to the verb stamp.
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