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ambush
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An ambush is a military tactic. Ambush may also refer to: HMS Ambush , two Royal Navy submarines French frigate L'Ambuscade Ambush predator , an animal that waits for its prey to approach instead of actively pursuing Ambush! , a board game by Avalon Hill ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ambush \Am"bush\, v. i. To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk. Nor saw the snake that ambushed for his prey. --Trumbull.
Usage examples of ambush.
If it had been left to the warriors none would have escaped the ambush, but the libraries had decreed that some should live so that they might inform others of their kind that this Associative, at least, ought to be left alone at night as well as during the day.
Unbeknownst to us, the raiders doubled back and a dozen of them ambushed us.
Kosovars were ambushed, Terry automatically relocated his team to a new base camp, one known only to his team.
Nothing had gone right since they had been ambushed by hired ruffians when they had arrived at the Gate of Double Glory.
He was badly bruised from the beating he had received when he had been ambushed, and, controlling the hell-hound had been as exhausting as riding a high-spirited thoroughbred.
When he and Tamora had been ambushed at the Gate of Double Glory, or when he and Eliphas had been chased by the hell-hound, he had been too busy trying to save his life to feel real fear.
The second of the one-ninety-eighth was ambushed during movement to reinforce you.
Slow, noisy and harmless would have been more like it, because about all they ever did was get themselves surrounded or ambushed, or both, and then call for someone to rescue them.
Our patrols slipped down darkened trails to set ambushes or to be ambushed themselves.
Led by a classmate from Quantico, a black officer named Adam Simpson, a twenty-eight-man patrol was ambushed by two hundred VC and almost annihilated.
She was on her way to be married when her party was ambushed by the slavers.
Of all the risky journeys, that on an ambushed river is the most risky, in my judgment, and that risk has Jasper run.
Christian white man, they have bit at the bait, and have ambushed the smoke!
We were ambushed, and the Sergeant got a bad hurt, and would have lost his scalp, but for a sort of inbred turn I took to the weapon.
He had been on the trail to the Diamond K when he was ambushed, and that was still where he was, he realized as he noted several landmarks.