Ambuscade Definition

ămbə-skād, ămbə-skād
ambuscaded, ambuscades, ambuscading
noun
ambuscades
An ambush.
American Heritage

Ambush.

Webster's New World

(dated) An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.

Wiktionary
The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush.
Wiktionary
The body of troops lying in ambush.
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verb
ambuscaded
To attack suddenly and without warning from a concealed place; ambush.
American Heritage

(dated) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

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Other Word Forms of Ambuscade

Noun

Singular:
ambuscade
Plural:
ambuscades

Origin of Ambuscade

  • French embuscade, from Italian imboscata, or Spanish emboscada, from emboscar (“to ambush”), from Late Latin imboscare, from Frankish *boscu, *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *busk- (“bush, heavy stick”). More at bush.

    From Wiktionary

  • French embuscade (from Old French embuschier to ambush) Old Italian imboscata (from) (feminine past participle of imboscare to ambush) both from Frankish boscu bush, woods

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ambuscade Sentence Examples

  • Misfortunes here increased upon him, until he fell into an ambuscade and was mortally wounded.

  • The column crossed the Monongahela river on the 9th of July and almost immediately afterwards fell into an ambuscade of French and Indians.

  • The armies were very large, an expedition often consisting of several divisions, each numbering eight thousand men; but the tactics of the commanders were quite rudimentary, consisting merely of attack by arrows and javelins at a distance, gradually closing into a hand-to-hand fight with clubs and spears, with an occasional feigned retreat to draw the enemy into an ambuscade.

  • It is allowable to deceive an enemy by fabricated despatches purporting to come from his own side; by tampering with telegraph 1112Ssages; by spreading false intelligence in newspapers; by sending pretended spies and deserters to give him untrue reports of the numbers or movements of the troops; by employing false signals to lure him into an ambuscade.

  • Dirk offered a stout resistance, but, according to the most trustworthy account, was enticed into an ambuscade and was killed in the fight (1049).

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