stampede

• n. 恐怖のあまり逃げ惑う；人の群れ；敗走する軍隊
• vi. 群がる；逃げる
• vt......を恐怖のあまり逃げさせる；取り押さえる

スペイン語のestampida（走る、逃げる）から。語源的にはstamp（踏みつける、足踏みする）と同じで、-idaは名詞の接尾辞。関連語から派生。

stampede (n.)

1844 (earlier stampedo, 1839), "A general scamper of animals on the Western prairies, generally caused by a fright" [Bartlett] from Mexican Spanish estampida, from Spanish, "an uproar," from estamper "to stamp, press, pound," from Proven?al estampier "to stamp," from the same Germanic root that yielded English stamp (v.). The political sense is first recorded 1846 (in reference to the U.S. Democratic Party convention of 1844). As the name of an annual exhibition of cowboy skills in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, it is attested from 1912.

stampede (v.)

1823 (intransitive); 1838 (transitive), from stampede (n.). Related: Stampeded; stampeding.

1. A wall collapsed and 39 people，were killed in the panic-stricken stampede .

壁が倒れ、パニックの中で39人が踏みつけ事故で死んだ。

2.Generaous redundancy terms had triggereed a stampede of staff wanting to leave.

優れたリストラ条件は、従業員が先を争って辞任を要求する現象を引き起こした。

3.There was a stampede for the exit.

みんな先を争って出口に向かって押し寄せた。

4.A stampede broke out when the doors opened.

ドアが開くと、人々が押し寄せる。

5.There was a stampede of panic-stricken crowd from the burning hotel.

パニック状態の人々が、火事になったホテルから走り出した。