stampede

See also Stampede

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

Spanish estampida (in America) a stampede, estampido a crackling, akin to estampar to stamp, of German origin.

Noun

Wikipedia stampede (plural stampedes)

1. A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.

   She and her husband would join in the general stampede. -W. Black.

2. A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to go in the same direction at the same time.

   The annual Muslim Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is attended by millions of pilgrims, has increasingly suffered from stampedes.

Synonyms

• (a wild running away): rush, flight
• (an intensive movement of a crowd): crush, jam, trampling

Translations

any sudden flight or dispersion

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• Czech: úprk (cs) m
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• Dutch: stormloop (nl) m
• Finnish: rynnistys (fi)
• French: bousculade (fr) f
• German: Stampede (de) f
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• Portuguese: debandada (pt) f
• Romanian: busculadă (ro) f, învălmășeală (ro) f
• Russian: паническое бегство (ru) (paníčeskoje bégstvo) n
• Serbo-Croatian: stampȇdo (sh) m
• Spanish: estampida (es) f
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• Turkish: izdiham (tr), bozgun (tr)
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an intensive movement of a crowd

• Russian: давка (ru) (davka) n

• Turkish: izdiham (tr)

Verb

stampede (third-person singular simple present stampedes, present participle stampeding, simple past and past participle stampeded)

1. (intransitive) To run away in a panic; said of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
2. (transitive) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.

Translations

To run away in panic; of cattle, horses; of armies

• Finnish: rynnätä pakoon

• Maori: rara (mi)

To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd

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