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- Dictionaryambuscade/ˌambʊˈskeɪd/
noun
- 1. an ambush: dated "our sensibilities are being battered with reports of killings and ambuscades"
verb
- 1. ambush (someone): archaic "French and his companions were ambuscaded by the Indians"
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noun. am· bus· cade ˈam-bə-ˌskād. ˌam-bə-ˈskād. Synonyms of ambuscade. : ambush. ambuscade verb. ambuscader noun. Did you know? The synonym ambush is older by a century, but English made room for ambuscade in the late 16th century anyway.
Ambuscade definition: an ambush.. See examples of AMBUSCADE used in a sentence.
An ambuscade is a surprise attack. There's nothing funnier than watching your cat lie in wait behind the couch until your dog wanders over, only to be startled by the cat's ambuscade. While ambuscade is a bit old-fashioned, it's a perfectly good way to say ambush.
noun. 1. an ambush. verb. 2. to ambush or lie in ambush. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C16: from French embuscade, from Old Italian imboscata, probably of Germanic origin; compare ambush. Word Frequency. ambuscade in American English. (ˌæmbəsˈkeɪd ; also, esp. for n., ˈæmbəsˌkeɪd )
1. an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road. 2. an act or instance of attacking unexpectedly from a concealed position. 3. the concealed position itself: They fired from ambush. 4. those who attack suddenly and unexpectedly from a concealed position. v.t.
The earliest known use of the noun ambuscade is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for ambuscade is from 1589, in the writing of A. Wingfield. ambuscade is a borrowing from French.
Jun 2, 2024 · ambuscade (third-person singular simple present ambuscades, present participle ambuscading, simple past and past participle ambuscaded) ( dated) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay .
