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Trampled vs Stampede - What's the difference?

trampled | stampede |

As a verb trampled

is (trample).

As a noun stampede is

stampede.

trampled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (trample)

  • trample

    English

    Verb

    (trampl)
  • To crush something by walking on it.
  • to trample grass or flowers
  • * Bible, Matthew vii. 6
  • Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
  • (by extension) To treat someone harshly.
  • To walk heavily and destructively.
  • * Charles Dickens
  • (by extension) To cause emotional injury as if by trampling.
  • (Cowper)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the sound of heavy footsteps
  • Anagrams

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    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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