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am⋅bush

  [am-boosh]
–noun Also, am⋅bush⋅ment.
1. an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.
2. an act or instance of attacking unexpectedly from a concealed position.
3. the concealed position itself: They fired from ambush.
4. those who attack suddenly and unexpectedly from a concealed position.
–verb (used with object)
5. to attack from ambush.
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Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) ME enbuss(h)en < MF embuschier to place men in ambush, lit., to set in the woods, equiv. to em- im- 1 + busch- (< VL *busca wood, forest < Gmc *busk- heavy stick) + -ier inf. suffix; (n.) earlier enbusshe < MF embusche, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
am⋅bush⋅er, noun
am⋅bush⋅like, adjective
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am·bush   (ām'bŏŏsh)   
n.  

  1. The act of lying in wait to attack by surprise.

  2. A sudden attack made from a concealed position.

    1. Those hiding in order to attack by surprise.

    2. The hiding place used for this.

  4. A hidden peril or trap.

tr.v.   am·bushed, am·bush·ing, am·bush·es
To attack from a concealed position.

[Middle English embush, from Old French embusche, from embuschier, to ambush, from Frankish *boscu, bush, woods.]
am'bush'er n.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to attack suddenly and without warning from a concealed place: guerrillas ambushing a platoon; highway robbers ambuscading a stagecoach; a patrol bushwhacked by poachers; a truck waylaid by robbers.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

ambush  (v.)
c.1300, from O.Fr. embuscher "to lay an ambush," from en- "in" + busch "wood," apparently from Frank. *busk "bush, woods" (see bush). Variant form ambuscade (1582) was reborrowed from Fr., sometimes ambuscado, with faux Sp. ending popular in Eng. 17c.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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