verb
definition
To run away in a panic; said of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
definition
To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
definition
(of people) To move rapidly in a mass.
Examples of stampeding in a Sentence
The guitars still sound like a herd of stampeding elephants and the percussion is meatier than Spam.
She has fought giant radioactive walruses in Russia, and faced stampeding buffalo in China.
I felt the old pangs of blinkered rationalization stampeding back to me like the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Hunting A stampeding herd of deer, driven by beaters are confronted by a line of bowmen.
No charging gamers, stampeding past the burly bouncers GAME had employed just for the launch.
He took as his chief subjects incidents of western life, cowboys and Indians, with which he was familiar from his years on the ranch; notably "Lassoing Wild Horses," "Stampeding Wild Horses," "Last Round-up," "On the Border of White Man's Land," and "Burial on the Plains."