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Перевод: stampede

[существительное]
бегство; паническое бегство; стихийное массовое движение;
[глагол]
обращаться в паническое бегство; обращать в паническое бегство

Тезаурус:

1. He rushed away followed by his laughing, equipment-rattling band in a mad stampede, but someone else was running towards the Windmill from another direction in a vain attempt to cut them off.
2. I personally find it strange that there is still a stampede to buy any dog that has won anything in Germany.
3. During the bullbaiting, thousands tore through the narrow streets of Wokingham, providing a splendid opportunity for the disaffected and unscrupulous to push their unwanted spouses or other associates in the path of the stampede.
4. My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events, incidents and activities: I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie, his business-like wife; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King, the Prime Minister, and R.B. Bennett, the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture, after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes, among many other things.
5. She didn't dare ride fast in case she startled the cows into a charge or a stampede or something.
6. Uniting boredom, provinciality, the Gadarene stampede, and paper people, Peter Verkhovensky says: "I realize that in this godforsaken town you are bored, so you make a rush for any piece of paper with something written on it."
7. The book is a stampede, faithful to its title and its Epigraph which is the story of the Gadarene swine possessed by devils and rushing into the lake of Galilee and drowning themselves.
8. It is a collective expression of extensive opposition to - even outrage at - the attempt by Henry VIII and Arran to stampede the Scots, the moment the opportunity appeared to present itself, into a complete denial of their long tradition of independence fought for and achieved in the teeth of English aggression.
9. The telephone bureau put 400 lucky numbers up for auction and the stampede among the notoriously superstitious Chinese pushed average bids to 10,000 and beyond.
10. We doubled our "remote control" broadcasts of baseball games, football matches, and the annual Stampede and Rodeo staged each July at the Exhibition Grounds.
11. The toxicity of some drugs has brought the status of the pharmaceutical industry to its lowest ebb yet, and has been partly responsible for a virtual stampede away from chemists towards health shops.
12. The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede.
13. The last of those three comments was, it is true, written almost fifteen years ago, long before the more than "adequate" gay images of My Beautiful Laundrette or Law of Desire or Torch Song Trilogy , but I think the general point stands: before we stampede to dispense with "identity", let us consider whether it still has its uses as a rallying point for political action.