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ambuscade
[ am-buh-skeyd, am-buh-skeyd ]
noun
- an ambush.
verb (used without object)
- to lie in ambush.
verb (used with object)
- to attack from a concealed position; ambush.
ambuscade
/ ˌæmbəˈskeɪd /
noun
- an ambush
verb
- to ambush or lie in ambush
Other Words From
- ambus·cader noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of ambuscade1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ambuscade1
Example Sentences
“Lake of Urine” offers instead strange harbingers, offbeat mental exfoliations, subterranean impulses, verbal ambuscades and warty, warty manifestations of joy, wit and lust.
Addressing the New People’s Army guerrillas, Duterte said, “Let us end these decades of ambuscades and skirmishes. We are going nowhere and it is getting bloodier by the day.”
The ambuscade shall be laid in the very same place where the infamous one concealed you in order to expose me to your gaze.
The fifty savages he had with him were placed in ambuscade in the woods, after their own manner; that is to say, lying as close as rabbits.
On the other hand, Major Van Horne should have heeded the information he received, that the enemy were in advance, in position, and not allowed his little army to rush into an ambuscade.
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