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    [Noun]  | "am*bus*cade" | \ ˈam-bə-ˌskād \


    1: ambush

    Origin: circa 1588 ;

     Borrowed from Middle French emboscade, embuscade, borrowed from Italian imboscata, from imboscare "to hide in a forest or behind vegetation" (from im- {see: |im-|in-:2} + -boscare, derivative of bosco "forest," going back —perhaps via Langobardic— to Germanic *boska-/*buska- "bush, thicket") + -ata, suffix of action and result {mat|bush:1|}, {mat|-ade|};

      * Note : For the initial am- in place of em- see: note at {ambush:1|ambush:1}.;

    [Noun]  | "ambuscades" 


    1: a setup in which hidden attackers lie in wait;


      * e.g., " ... warned by one of their scouts of an Apache ambuscade, the Comanches took a different path through the mountains "



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    [Noun]  | "ambuscade" 


    1: a setup in which hidden attackers lie in wait;


      * e.g., " ... warned by one of their scouts of an Apache ambuscade, the Comanches took a different path through the mountains "



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    [Verb]  | "ambuscades" 


    1: to lie in wait for and attack by surprise;


      * e.g., " ... marching to the rescue of the besieged Fort Stanwix, 800 colonial militiamen were ambuscaded by a force of Loyalist troops and their Native American allies "



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    [Verb]  | "ambuscade" 


    1: to lie in wait for and attack by surprise;


      * e.g., " ... marching to the rescue of the besieged Fort Stanwix, 800 colonial militiamen were ambuscaded by a force of Loyalist troops and their Native American allies "



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