different between scurry vs stampede

English

Etymology

Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sk??r(?)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk??i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): (with the "Hurry-furry" merger) /?sk??i/
• Rhymes: -?ri
• Hyphenation: scur?ry

Verb

scurry (third-person singular simple present scurries, present participle scurrying, simple past and past participle scurried)

1. To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
   • 1964, William Golding, Lord of the Flies

     Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.

Synonyms

• (run with quick light steps): scamper
• (do things quickly): hurry, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush

Derived terms

• ascurry
• scurry away
• scurry off

Translations

Noun

scurry (plural scurries)

1. A dash.
   • 1845, Sporting Magazine (volume 5, page 25)

     Found a fox in Deerstone, and after a great deal of music, and a scurry or two round the wood, went away over Whigford Down, but he was too far before them to make any more quick music […]

English

Etymology

From Spanish estampida (“a stampede”) (in America), estampido (“a crackling”), akin to estampar (“to stamp”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /stæm?pi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

stampede (plural stampedes)

1. 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.
   • 1873, William Black, A Princess of Thule

     She and her husband would join in the general stampede.

2. A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to go in the same direction at the same time.
3. (figuratively) Any sudden unconcerted moving or acting together of a number of persons, as from some common impulse.

   a stampede toward US bonds in the credit markets

Synonyms

• (a wild running away): rush, flight
• (an intensive movement of a crowd): crush, jam, trampling

Translations

Verb

stampede (third-person singular simple present stampedes, present participle stampeding, simple past and past participle stampeded)

1. (intransitive) To run away in a panic; said of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
2. (transitive) 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.

3. (of people) To move rapidly in a mass.

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