1. Cause to run in panic
   "Thunderbolts can stampede animals"
    
2. Cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively
   "The tavern owners stampeded us into overeating"
    
3. Act, usually en massé, hurriedly or on an impulse
   "Companies will now stampede to release their latest software"
    
4. Run away in a stampede
   "The cattle stampeded when they heard the loud noise"

1. A wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle)
   "The sudden noise caused a stampede of the cattle"
    
2. A headlong rush of people on a common impulse
   "when he shouted ‘fire’ there was a stampede to the exits"

Derived forms: stampeded, stampedes, stampeding

Type of: act, cause, change of location, cut and run [informal], flee, fly, get, group action, have, induce, make, move, stimulate, take flight, travel

Encyclopedia: Stampede, Texas