ambuscade
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈæmbəsˌkeɪd/
noun
Etymology: From French embuscade, from Italian imboscata from the past participle of imboscare (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imbosco (“I hide, ambush”) (see there for more), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambush. More at bush.
- 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 […]”
“The yellow cat deliberately stretched himself, yawned, and followed; and proceeded to carry out a wonderful scheme of feints and ambuscades in regard to a ping-pong ball which was kept for his proper diversion.”
- 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”
- The body of troops lying in ambush.
verb
Etymology: From French embuscade, from Italian imboscata from the past participle of imboscare (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imbosco (“I hide, ambush”) (see there for more), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambush. More at bush.
- To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.
“About noon we passed a small village in Merrimack at Thornton's Ferry, and tasted of the waters of Naticook Brook on the same side, where French and his companions, whose grave we saw in Dunstable, were ambuscaded by the Indians.”
“On the return to camp, the party was ambuscaded and dispersed, the officer and one man having been killed.”