ambush

An ambush is a surprise attack by someone or something that was hidden. (noun)

An example of an ambush is an unexpected military raid of a house.

An ambush is an area in which someone hid before attacking someone. (noun)

An example of an ambush is a trench in which soldiers are concealed before attacking.

To ambush is to attack by surprise. (verb)

An example of ambush is when soldiers from a Navy boat secretly empty onto a beach in the middle of the night in order to attack.

See ambush in Webster's New World College Dictionary

See ambush in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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