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ambush
  1. The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
  2. An attack launched from a concealed position.
  3. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It has been stated that, at Guasimas, the Rough Riders were trapped in an ambush.”
      “The Russian snipers were not prepared to hunt in the ruins and to lie in ambush for days on end.”
ambuscade
  1. (dated) An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.
  2. The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush.
  3. The body of troops lying in ambush.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The soldiers prepared themselves for the imminent ambuscade as they cautiously advanced through the dense jungle.”
ambuscader
  1. One who ambushes, or who is involved in an ambush.
ambushee
  1. One who is ambushed.
ambusher
  1. One who ambushes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A night's frantic journey or a daring sail on the treacherous winter sea is all it would take to put an ambusher in their path.”
      “Would they pass the toughest test of all by keeping a dedicated ambusher like Nike on the outside?”
      “They are engaged in the most rancorous battle between a sponsor and an ambusher.”
ambushing
  1. An ambush.
ambushment
  1. (obsolete) An ambush
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Their overnight bivouac was not above a mile beyond the glade of ambushment.”
      “On the 8th August they came to an ambushment all prepared, but it had been abandoned for some unknown reason.”
      “I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in front, or an ambushment, be contemplated.”
ambuscado
  1. (obsolete) ambush.
  2. Examples:
    1. “If they mean any treachery, such as a decoy and ambuscado, why, by my conscience!”
      “So, as I said, he came up with his train to the gate, and laid his ambuscado for Captain Resistance within bow-shot of the town.”
      “Had these two had wind of the ambuscado and crept out by another door?”
ambuscadoes
ambuscaders
  1. plural of ambuscader
ambushments
ambuscades
ambuscados
  1. plural of ambuscado
ambushings
  1. plural of ambushing
ambushees
  1. plural of ambushee
ambushers
  1. plural of ambusher
  2. Examples:
    1. “Not until the group had drawn abreast the ambushers did urb give the signal.”
ambushes
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