ambuscade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an ambush, or a concealed position from which a surprise attack is made

   Scouts searched the narrow pass for a possible ambuscade.

2. 2
   verb

   to lie in wait for or attack someone from concealment

   The raiders planned to ambuscade the convoy at dawn.

Borrowed in the late sixteenth century from French embuscade, reshaped from Italian imboscata, an ambush. The Italian verb imboscare literally meant to place in a wood or hide among bushes, from bosco, meaning wood or forest.

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