Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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stampede

UK /stæmˈpiːd/ · US /stæmˈpid/ noun, verb

Forms stampedes stampeding stampeded

  1. noun A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright.
  2. noun A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to move in the same direction at the same time, especially in consequence of a panic. “The annual Muslim Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is attended by millions of pilgrims, has increasingly suffered from stampedes.”
  3. noun (Canada, US) An event at which cowboy skills are displayed; a rodeo.
  4. noun (figurative) A sudden unconcerted acting together of a number of persons due to, or as if due to, some common impulse. “a stampede toward US bonds in the credit markets”
  5. verb To cause (a drove or herd of animals) to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
  6. verb To cause animals (owned by a person) to run away or scamper in this manner.
  7. verb (by extension) To cause (people in a crowd) to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
  8. verb (by extension) To cause (an individual) to act hastily or rashly. “I was stampeded into buying an unnecessary insurance against earthquakes, fires, and flooding.”
  9. verb (figurative) To cause (people) to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.
  10. verb Of a drove or herd of animals: to run away or scamper in a wild, headlong manner, usually due to fright.
  11. verb (by extension) Of people in a crowd: to move in the same direction at the same time, especially due to panic.
  12. verb (figurative) Of people: to act in a sudden unconcerted manner due to, or as if due to, some common impulse.

Synonyms

crush flight jam rush stampedo trampling

Etymology

The noun is derived from Mexican Spanish estampida (“a stampede”), from Spanish estampida, estampido (“a bang, a crack (sound)”), from Old Occitan estampida, from Gothic *𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌼𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*stampjan), from Proto-Germanic *stampōną (“to compress, squeeze; to stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *stembʰ- (“to trample down”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun 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.
  2. verb To run away in a panic; --said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
  3. verb To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.

Etymology [Sp. estampida (in America) a stampede, estampido a crackling, akin to estampar to stamp, of German origin. See Stamp, v. t.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “stampede”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details