stampede
Speech parts
1. stampede - Noun
2. stampede - Verb
Meaning
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.
To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
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Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
I have always felt that the camera hasn't liked me. I'm a stage animal. I have to be big and loud, and the camera needs you to be small and naturalistic and subtle; much more naturalistic. I'm as subtle as a buffalo stampede.
Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.
Government doesn't often move quickly, but when they do, it's like an elephant stampede.
You don't have to tell the deaf that there is a stampede in the market.