Trampled vs Stampede - What's the difference?
trampled | stampede |
(trample)
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.
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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As a verb trampled
is (trample).As a noun stampede is
stampede.trampled
English
Verb
(head)trample
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Verb
(trampl)- to trample grass or flowers
- Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet.
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.}}
- (Cowper)
Anagrams
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(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."