Sekirov Dictionary

ambulance

/ˈæmbjᵿl(ə)n(t)s/

noun 5
verb 1
forms 3

noun5

a vehicle that rushes people who are badly hurt or very sick to a hospital
A mobile field hospital.
(UK) A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.
(UK, no longer used) Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport.
(US, no longer used) Synonym of covered wagon.

verb1

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To transport by ambulance.
- Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found. — 1918

forms

ambulanced · ambulancing · ambulances

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