Crossword clues for ambushing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ambush \Am"bush\ ([a^]m"b[oo^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ambushed ([a^]m"b[oo^]shd); p. pr. & vb. n. Ambushing.] [OE. enbussen, enbushen, OF. embushier, embuissier, F. emb[^u]cher, embusquer, fr. LL. imboscare; in + LL. boscus, buscus, a wood; akin to G. bush, E. bush. See Ambuscade, Bush.]
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To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
By ambushed men behind their temple laid, We have the king of Mexico betrayed.
--Dryden. To attack by ambush; to waylay.
Wiktionary
n. An ambush. vb. (present participle of ambush English)
Usage examples of "ambushing".
Mistaking Lukien and his companions for merchants returning from the south, they explained how Akeela had arranged for Mor's destruction at Hanging Man, ambushing the Norvan army with help from the Reecians.
And the thought of ambushing the hatchlings as they emerged into the sun, wings still damp and eyes dazzled, sickened him.
But she cheered up right away, and after that we just talked, watching Miss Sophia Brown and Mister Cat taking turns ambushing each other, until I really did feel that we were like that, totally unconcerned with who was alive and who wasn’t.
But apparently she still couldn't stop the memories of what might have been from ambushing her when her guard was down.
Lee, trying to picture Wolfgang, thought of Bader Von Vechten instead--younger, with pale skin and black hair and blue eyes, full of passion and murder, killing Horace Craig, ambushing him, shooting him in the head.
The Oracle had passed a stage horn over his cradle when he'd first leaned to focus his gaze, predicting that he would be a talented Chosen, and he'd trained and fought and risen to be the most powerful Captain in a hundred years, but when the Gotri had attacked the village, ambushing the Chosen, and leaving him bleeding out his life on the ground, the Huntsman had turned his feral gaze away from his broken Captain and melted back into the forest.