Ambush meaning
The definition of an ambush is an area in which someone hid before attacking someone.
An example of an ambush is a trench in which soldiers are concealed before attacking.
noun
An ambush is defined as a surprise attack by someone, or something that was hidden.
An example of an ambush is an unexpected military raid of a house.
noun
A sudden attack made from a concealed position.
noun
Ambush means to attack by surprise.
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.
verb
To attack from a concealed position.
verb
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A deployment of persons in hiding to make a surprise attack.
noun
The act of so lying in wait to attack.
noun
A surprise attack made by persons waiting in ambush.
noun
To hide in ambush.
verb
To attack from ambush.
verb
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The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
noun
An attack launched from a concealed position.
noun
The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait.
noun
To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
verb
To attack by ambush; to waylay.
verb
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Origin of ambush
- Middle English embushen to place in concealment among bushes, lay in wait from Old French embuschier from Frankish boscu bush, woods
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old French embusche (noun), embushier, embuissier (verb), from Old French em- + Vulgar Latin boscus, bosca, boscum (“wood”), from Frankish *boscu, *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *busk- (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambuscade. The change to am- from earlier forms in en- is unexplained. More at bush.
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