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Ambuscaded

Ambuscade \Am`bus*cade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ambuscaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Ambuscading.]

  1. To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.

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

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ambuscaded

vb. (en-past of: ambuscade)

Usage examples of "ambuscaded".

It is but an ambuscaded enemy whose sole interest in life is to lie in wait for stray grapeseeds and employ them to breed strangulated hernia.

It was my notion that as soon as dawn approached we could expect the ditch’s ambuscaded thousands to swarm up over the embankment and make an assault, and be followed immediately by the rest of their army.

It was my notion that as soon as dawn approached we could expect the ditch's ambuscaded thousands to swarm up over the embankment and make an assault, and be followed immediately by the rest of their army.

But if we had had hard times before, I know not what to call the five nights that now followed, for the marches were as fatiguing, the baths as cold, and we were ambuscaded seven times in addition, and lost two novices and three veterans in the resulting fights.

He tripped them up with facts, ambuscaded them with facts, bombarded them with broadsides of facts.