I. noun
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Competitors are hoping for a stampede of unhappy customers from the troubled bank.
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All the chemists' shops stocked up, ready for the stampede .
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Co. has roped First Interstate Bancorp but competitors hope for a stampede of disenchanted customers from the merged bank.
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Commuters die in stampede A stampede in a stairway at a railway station in Johannesburg killed seven people and injured eight others.
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Dozens of doors are slammed, and there is a stampede for the lifts.
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Is the discount sports shoe place up ahead or already left behind in the smoking stampede of rushing cars?
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The photographers looked ready to stampede .
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To avoid a stampede , no advance notice was given of his appearances.
II. verb
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The cattle began stampeding toward the town.
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Boys of thirteen and fourteen were stampeding out of school, roaring, jeering and swearing.
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He was furious with Khrushchev for breaking the moratorium, but he refused to be stampeded into a new series of tests.
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The crowd looked on the verge of stampeding.
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There was a peacock there, stampeded by the queue.
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Thousands of spectators stampeded to get out of the stadium and many people were crushed.