ambuscade
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈæmbəsˌkeɪd/
ambuscade (plural ambuscades)
- (dated) An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.
- 1883, Harper's Magazine
- The plot of the tragedy at hand was the very old one of the decoy and the ambuscade […]
- 1883, Harper's Magazine
- The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush.
- The body of troops lying in ambush.
- French: embuscade
- German: Hinterhalt
- Portuguese: emboscada
- Russian: заса́да
ambuscade (ambuscades, present participle ambuscading; past and past participle ambuscaded)
- (dated) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.
- 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, James R. Osgood (1873), page 228 ↗:
- 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.
- 1849, Roswell Sabine Ripley, The War with Mexico, Volume I, Harper & Brothers (1849), page 106 ↗:
- On the return to camp, the party was ambuscaded and dispersed, the officer and one man having been killed.
- 1923, Carl Sandburg, film review dated 18 May 1923, re-printed in The Movies Are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928 (ed. Arnie Bernstein), Lake Claremont Press (2000), ISBN 9781893121058, page 169 ↗:
- But aside from its love story, the picture is filled with the fighting and shooting, fording rivers with wagon trains, Indians ambuscading wagon trains, scouts who drink whisky and fight and ride magnificently.
- 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, James R. Osgood (1873), page 228 ↗:
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