different between stampede vs coerce

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.

Translations

Anagrams

• stepdame

English

Etymology

From Latin coercere (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arcere (“to inclose, confine, keep off”); see arcade, arcane, ark.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko???s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?????s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Verb

coerce (third-person singular simple present coerces, present participle coercing, simple past and past participle coerced)

1. (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
2. (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.

3. (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.

Synonyms

• compel
• bully
• dragoon

Derived terms

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Further reading

• coerce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• coerce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

coerc?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of coerce?