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Stampede vs Deluge - What's the difference?

stampede | deluge |

As a noun stampede

is stampede.

As a proper noun deluge is

(bible) the biblical flood during the time of noah.

stampede

English

(wikipedia stampede)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
    • She and her husband would join in the general stampede . -W. Black.
  • A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to go in the same direction at the same time.
    • The annual Muslim Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is attended by millions of pilgrims, has increasingly suffered from stampedes.

    Synonyms

    * (a wild running away) rush, flight * (an intensive movement of a crowd) crush, jam, trampling

    Verb

    (stamped)
  • To run away in a panic; said of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
  • To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
  • *
    • "Cattle are usually quiet after dark. Still I've known even a coyote to stampede your white herd."

    Anagrams

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    deluge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A great flood or rain.
    • The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
  • An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
    • The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
  • * Milton
    • A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
  • * Lowell
    • The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
  • (Military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
  • * NAVEDTRA 14324A
    • In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.

    Verb

  • To flood with water.
  • To overwhelm.
    • After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.

    References

    * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

    See also

    * inundate ----