Definition of "stampeded" [stampeded]

• Simple past tense and past participle of stampede. (verb)

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• "Instead, the men took him at his word and stampeded for the ships, behaving like conscripts running for their lives at the first sound of the enemy."
• "He is delighted to hear that the prime minister is not going to be "stampeded" by the "anti-Europeans" into a referendum on the treaty."
• "NP broadcasting spokesman Daryl Swanepoel said submissions made by industry stakeholders to the National Assembly's communications committee indicated that the bill as introduced, if "stampeded" through Parliament, would not have the support of the industry."