stampede

IPA: stæmpˈid

A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright.
(by extension)
A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to move in the same direction at the same time, especially in consequence of a panic.
(Canada, US) An event at which cowboy skills are displayed; a rodeo.
(figurative) A sudden unconcerted acting together of a number of persons due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.

(transitive)
To cause (a drove or herd of animals) to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
To cause animals (owned by a person) to run away or scamper in this manner.
(by extension) To cause (people in a crowd) to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
(by extension) To cause (an individual) to act hastily or rashly.
(figurative) To cause (people) to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
(intransitive)
Of a drove or herd of animals: to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
(by extension) Of people in a crowd: to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
(figurative) Of people: to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.

Examples of "stampede" in Sentences

The ethanol stampede is contributing to a sugar shortage.
And the cure for the panic stampede is to be found in historical perspective.
As the cattle continued their short-term stampede, campus cops intervened and inexplicably held Kotran against his will.
Northland Scripture, the stampede is to the swift, the blazing of stakes to the strong, and the Crown in royalties, gathers to itself the fulness thereof.
Northland Scripture, the stampede is to the swift, the blazing of stakes to the strong, and the Crown, in royalties, gathers to itself the fulness thereof.
That is one of the reasons that the revolutionary movement occurred -- the reason of a stampede from the front -- and it is quite possible that the Germans have been shrewd enough to realize that it was quite well to give time for that to happen, for some disintegrating force to take place.
People mourn victims in German stampede Chinese consulate-general confirms one female citizen killed in German stampede Death toll of German stampede rises to 19, over 300 injured The stampede took place shortly after 5 pm Saturday as people were jostling with each other in an entrance tunnel to a former freight rail station in the western German city of Duisburg, where the event was being held.