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Ambuscade

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An ambush.

v. To attack suddenly and without warning from a concealed place; ambush. See Synonyms at ambush.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.

v. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

n. A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly.

n. The body of troops lying in ambush.

v. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.

v. To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

verb-intransitive. To lie in ambush.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A lying in wait and concealment for the purpose of attacking by surprise; an ambush.

n. A secret station in which troops lie concealed with a view to attacking suddenly and by surprise; an ambush.

n. A body of troops lying in ambush.

To attack from a concealed position.

To lie in ambush: as, “ambuscading ways,”

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise

v. wait in hiding to attack

Word Usage

"The Amalekites and Canaanites, who had been lying in ambuscade expecting their movement, rushed down upon them from the heights and became the instruments of punishing their guilty rebellion."

Verb Form

ambuscaded ambuscades ambuscading

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

wait

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ambush waylay

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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