stampeding
present participle ofstampede
stampede
verb[IorT]
uk/stæmˈpiːd/us/stæmˈpiːd/Whenanimalsorpeoplestampede, they allmovequicklyin the samedirection, often because they arefrightened:
Aloudclapofthundermade theherdstampede.
figurativeNoamountofpressurewill stampede(=force)thiscommitteeintomakinghastydecisions.
Animal (non-human) behaviour
- accidental
- beg
- behave
- behaviour
- behavioural science
- behaviourist
- groom
- hatch
- hover
- monogamy
- murmuration
- nocturnal
- non-migrant
- non-migratory
- nuzzle
- ruminate
- scent
- skitter
- slaver
- torpor
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Because of the delaying action of thestampedingherd, this too might allow an animal to be caught.
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They were moving, actuallystampeding, into the cities.
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One catastrophe of that kind, thestampedingof one of those shelters, and nobody would any longer dare to go into any of them again.
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The mark is that he has not thought about the subject before, otherwise he would not have to considerstampedingor being stampeded.
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Even most townsmen would regard it as not very good behaviour to gostampedingthrough a field of growing corn.
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What knocked the bottom out of the market for home produce in the years before the war was thestampedingof it by importers.
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In fact, they arestampedingthe country into vast expenditure.
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I have seen groups of ridersstampedingalong bridleways and fast cars being driven irresponsibily.
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The aircraft banked over the house at very low level, frightening the whole household andstampedingneighbouring livestock and reducing our guest to a state of shock and collapse.
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When the sisters refused, the cattlemen's association began hiring cowboys to harass the sisters,stampedingtheir cattle and rustling.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During the battle, the ground shakes upon the approach ofstampedingcreatures.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Two months later he loses a lump of flesh saving a 19-year-old widow from astampedinghorse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Unfortunately for him, a veritable zoo calls the hotel home, and comesstampedingover him.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Apparently untrained security guards firing tear gas at thestampedingfans exacerbated the situation, and may have been the cause of some of the deaths.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During the riots, there was at least one death due to astampedingcrowd.
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- catch at
- catch cold
- catch fire
- catch on
- catch one's breath
- catch sb．'s eye
- catch sight of
- catch up
- catch up with／to
- catch／get a glimpse of
- certain of
- chance on／upon
- change hands
- change one's mind
- charge for
- charge off
- charge to
- charge with
- check in
- check off
- check on
- check out
- check over
- check up
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