Sekirov Dictionary

ambuscade

/ˈæmbəsˌkeɪd/

noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

noun3

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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 — 1719
The body of troops lying in ambush.
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(old-fashioned) An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.
- The plot of the tragedy at hand was the very old one of the decoy and the ambuscade […] — 1883

verb1

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(old-fashioned) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.
- On the return to camp, the party was ambuscaded and dispersed, the officer and one man having been killed. — 1849

forms

ambuscaded · ambuscading · ambuscades

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