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Definition: Stampede |
StampedeNoun1. A headlong rush of people on a common impulse; "when he shouted `fire' there was a stampede to the exits". 2. A wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle). Verb1. Cause to run in panic: "Thunderbolts can stampede animals". 2. Cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively; "The tavern owners stampeded us into overeating". 3. Act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse: "Companies will now stampede to release their latest software". 4. Run away in a stampede. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stampede" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
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Literature | Stampede A sudden panic in a herd of buffaloes, causing them to rush away pell-mell. The panic-flight of the Federals at Bull Run, near the Potomac, U.S., in 1861, was a stampede. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Fright; affright, affrightment; boof alarm, dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stampede |
| Specialty definitions using "stampede": tortoise. (references) |
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Screenplays | I wish they'd stampede up your ass. (Tremors; writing credit: S.S. Wilson; Brent Maddock) Now, exactly how many cattle are required for a stampede, Earl? (Tremors; writing credit: S.S. Wilson; Brent Maddock) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Calgary Stampede (1965) Stampede Wrestling (1957) Burns Chuckwagon from the Stampede Corral (1954) Stampede City (1954) El Paso Stampede (1953) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Stampede of slaves from Hampton to Fortress Monroe. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Stampede of army horses. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Stampede of horses running by. |
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Human Rights | Ghana | In the ensuing stampede, 126 persons were crushed and trampled to death as they tried to escape the tear gas. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign! In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime! I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out. |
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| "Stampede" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 87.30% of the time. "Stampede" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 87.3% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 6.35% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.35% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stampede"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ikje në rrëmujë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فرار جماعي, فرار (bolt, elopement, escapade, escape, flight, scamper), فر مذعورا, تشتت (disband, disperse, dispersion, scuttle, squander), زعزع (rattle, rock, shake, unsettle), إندفع (bicker, break out, dash, fling, flush, lunge, make, precipitate, regurgitate, rip, rush, scramble, stream, surge, swarm, tumble, urge, zip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спонтанно масово движение, хуквам да бягам (run for it), причинявам паническо бягство, постъпвам безразсъдно, паническо бягство (helter-skelter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 惊逃. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | splašit (dig up, scare up), vyvolat paniku, velký nával, panika (fuss, panic, scare), hnát se splašenì, divoký úprk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فرارکردن (Abscond, Elope, Escape, Flight, Scape, Skedaddle), لگدکوب , ترس ناگهانی یک گله اسب , صدای کوبیدن پا, رمیدن (Wince), رم (Breakaway, Rum, Scare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | s'enfuir en désordre, se ruer (stoop, storm), se précipiter, jeter la panique parmi, fuite, fuir en désordre, faire fuir, débandade, débâcle, cavalcade. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wilde flucht, massenandrang (crush, huge crowd), ansturm (crowd, onrush, onslaught, run, rush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάνω κάτι ομαδικώσ εν πανικώ, προξενώ πανικό, πανικόσ (jitters, panic), φεύγω ομαδικώσ εν πανικώ, άτακτοσ φυγή, αφηνίασμα αγέλησ ζώων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ וסת ב"ל" (rout), ל וס מ וסת ב"ל", שעטת ב"ל", שעט" (stamping, trampling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pánik (abject terror, flurry, panic, scare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fuggire (abscond, bolt, escape, flee, fly, make off, run, run away, run off), fuga precipitosa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 駆け込み (last-minute rush), 人波 (surging crowd, wave of humanity), 潰走 (rout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひとなみ (being average, ordinary, surging crowd, wave of humanity), かいそう (attendance at a funeral, class, fast sailing, forwarding, hierarchy, level, marine plant, petty officer, reburial, reflection, reminiscence, remodelling, reorganization, rout, seaweed, shipping, stratum), かけ"み (last-minute rush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cur er ouyl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ampedestay pôr em debandada (rout), lançar o pânico entre, fugir precipitadamente (skedaddle), fugir em desordem, fugir em debandada, fuga causada por pânico, debandada (scurry). (various references) strechea, se nãpusti (fall, fling, rush, shoot, souse), panicã (alarm, flap, funk, panic, scare, terror), fugi în dezordine (skedaddle), fugã (be quick, bolt, bunk, career, course, escape, flight, fugue, getaway, hurry on, leak, leg-bail, lick, look sharp, make haste, run, running, rush, scamper, scurry, scuttle, slip), fi cuprins de panicã (get a panic, panic), debandadã (confusion, disorder, helter-skelter, hurry-scurry, rout, scurry), bãga spaima în, învãlmãşealã (bustle, confusion, crowd, hubbub, scrimmage, scuffle, scurry, squash, stir, struggle, throng, turmoil). (various references) паническое бегство. (various references) divlje bekstvo, divlja navala, bekstvo u panici. (various references) estampida. (various references) panikartad flykt. (various references) zorlamak (be urgent with smb., bludgeon, bully, clamor down, clamour down, coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, cozen, do violence to, drag in, drive, edge on, enforce, exact, force, impel, impose, impress, lean upon, obligate, outrage, press, press-gang smb. into doing smth., pressure, push, push smb. for, railroad, railroad into doing, strain, stretch, subdue, sweat, twist smb.'s arm, urge, worry, wrest), toplu telaş, panik yaratmak, panik (alarmed, panic, panic stricken, panic struck, panicky, tailspin), korkutarak dağıtmak, izdiham yaratmak (horde), izdiham (concourse, confluence, conflux, congestion, cram, crowd, jam, mob, multitude, press, squeeze, throng), bozgun (beating, cropper, debacle, defeat, discomfiture, fiasco, rout, upset), ayaklandırmak (revolutionize), ürküterek kaçırmak, çil yavrusu gibi dağılma. (various references) стихійний масовий рух, кидатися врозтіч, викликати паніку, панічна втеча. (various references) phong tr o thiếu phối hợp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stampede": stampeded, stampeder, stampeders, stampedes. (additional references) | |
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"Stampede" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Estrapade, stameed, stamied, stampe, stampeed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stampede" (pronounced stampē"d) |
| 4 | -m p ē" d | impede. |
| 3 | -p ē" d | lipide, peed, speed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stepdame. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-m-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: dampest, metepas, stamped, steamed. | |
-2 letters: adeems, adepts, demast, edemas, etapes, masted, meated, metepa, pasted, pedate, pesade, peseta, seamed, seated, sedate, tamped, teamed, teased, temped. | |
-3 letters: adeem, adept, aedes, dames, damps, dates, deems, deeps, deets, demes, eased, edema, etape, mated, mates, meads, meats, meeds, meets, meted, metes, paste, pated, pates, pease, peats, pedes, sated. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-m-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: restamped, stampeded, stampeder, stampedes, stepdames. | |
+2 letters: empathised, prestamped, stampeders. | |
+3 letters: atmosphered, compensated, decampments, departments. | |
+4 letters: antependiums, decompensate, depravements, displacement, distemperate, impersonated, madreporites, meanspirited, mousetrapped, pentamidines, postmedieval, predicaments, predominates, premeditates, semipalmated, slipstreamed, stapedectomy. | |
+5 letters: decompensated, decompensates, dermatophytes, disparagement, displacements, metamorphosed, pedestrianism, premeditators, subdepartment, uncompensated, underpayments. | |
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