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English noun: stampede | |||
| 1. | stampede (act) a headlong rush of people on a common impulse | ||
| Samples | When he shouted `fire' there was a stampede to the exits. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | group action | ||
| 2. | stampede (event) a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change of location, travel | ||
English verb: stampede | |||
| 1. | stampede (motion) cause to run in panic | ||
| Samples | Thunderbolts can stampede animals. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Cause | stampede | ||
| 2. | stampede (social) cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively | ||
| Samples | The tavern owners stampeded us into overeating. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Cause | stampede | ||
| 3. | stampede (social) act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse | ||
| Samples | Companies will now stampede to release their latest software. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | act, move | ||
| 4. | stampede (motion) run away in a stampede | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | flee, fly, take flight | ||
| Entail | belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, run, rush, rush along, speed, step on it | ||
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