Stampede vs Trample - What's the difference?
stampede | trample |
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.
A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to go in the same direction at the same time.
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.
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To crush something by walking on it.
* Bible, Matthew vii. 6
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
To walk heavily and destructively.
* Charles Dickens
(by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
As nouns the difference between stampede and trample
is that stampede is stampede while trample is the sound of heavy footsteps.As a verb trample is
to crush something by walking on it.stampede
English
(wikipedia stampede)Noun
(en noun)- She and her husband would join in the general stampede . -W. Black.
- 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, tramplingVerb
(stamped)- "Cattle are usually quiet after dark. Still I've known even a coyote to stampede your white herd."
Anagrams
*trample
English
Verb
(trampl)- to trample grass or flowers
- Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.
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- (Cowper)