stampedes

Cattle in flight

Stampedes is the plural of stampede—a sudden, panicked rush of animals or people moving as a mass.

Cattle stampede when spooked; crowds stampede toward exits during emergencies.

Figuratively, a stampede describes any headlong rush: a stampede of investors fleeing the market.

The verb means to cause or join such a rush: Don't let them stampede you into a decision.

animal

herd

Grazing animals together

  • cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
  • buffaloLarge North American bovine
  • wildebeestLarge African grazing antelope

hooves · thundering · dust · plains · Serengeti · bison · migration · trampling · panic · watering hole

crowd

crush

Compress with force

  • panicUncontrollable sudden fear
  • crowdLarge public gathering
  • tramplingCrushing underfoot repeatedly

festival · concert · stadium · exit · bottleneck · barrier · surge · suffocation · evacuation · Hillsborough

metaphor

rush

Quick sudden movement

  • frenzyViolent mental agitation
  • surgeSudden powerful increase
  • exodusMass departure from somewhere

mass movement · bandwagon · gold rush · land rush · craze · mania · flight · dash · scramble · boom

Categories
Opposites
movement pattern

stampedesparades

Public celebratory processions

marches · formations · processions · queues · columns

speed and urgency

stampedesstrolls

Unhurried walks

ambles · saunters · crawls · shuffles · meandering

emotional state of crowd

stampedesserenity

Undisturbed mental quietude

tranquility · stillness

Phrases
Family

stamped, stampede, stampeded, stampeding, stampeder

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