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say it: stam-PEED
stampede is a verb and noun meaning "cause to run in panic". It carries 6 recorded senses.
cause to run in panic
“Thunderbolts can stampede animals”
cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively
“The tavern owners stampeded us into overeating”
act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse
“Companies will now stampede to release their latest software”
run away in a stampede
a headlong rush of people on a common impulse
“when he shouted `fire' there was a stampede to the exits”
a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stampede come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.