dawdle vs stampede

dawdle

noun
  • An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey. 

  • An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling. 

  • Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”) 

verb
  • To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time. 

  • To move or walk lackadaisically. 

  • Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose. 

stampede

noun
  • Any sudden unconcerted moving or acting together of a number of persons, as from some common impulse. 

  • 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. 

  • A situation in which many people in a crowd are trying to go in the same direction at the same time. 

verb
  • To move rapidly in a mass. 

  • To run away in a panic; said of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies. 

  • To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals. 

How often have the words dawdle and stampede occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )