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Ambuscade

//ˈæmbəsˌkeɪd// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy. dated

    "The plot of the tragedy at hand was the very old one of the decoy and the ambuscade […]"

  2. 2
    the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise wordnet
  3. 3
    The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush.

    "I went so far with it in my Imagination, that I employed my self several days to find out proper Places to put my self in Ambuscade"

  4. 4
    The body of troops lying in ambush.
Verb
  1. 1
    To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay. dated

    "About noon we passed a small village in Merrimack at Thornton's Ferry, and tasted of the waters of Naticook Brook on the same side, where French and his companions, whose grave we saw in Dunstable, were ambuscaded by the Indians."

  2. 2
    wait in hiding to attack wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French embuscade, from Italian imboscata from the past participle of imboscare (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imbosco (“I hide, ambush”) (see there for more), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambush. More at bush.

Etymology 2

From French embuscade, from Italian imboscata from the past participle of imboscare (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imbosco (“I hide, ambush”) (see there for more), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambush. More at bush.

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