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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
am·bush       [am-boosh] Pronunciation Key
–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.

[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.]

am·bush·er, noun
am·bush·like, adjective
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
am·bush       (ām'bŏŏsh)  Pronunciation Key 
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.
  3. 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.

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
ambush

noun
1. the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise 

verb
1. wait in hiding to attack 
2. hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing [syn: still-hunt

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

AMBUSH language
A language for linear programming problems in a materials processing and transportation network.
["AMBUSH - An Advanced Model Builder for Linear Programming", T.R. White et al, National Petroleum Refiners Assoc Comp Conf (Nov 1971)].
(1995-06-19)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Ambush

Am"bush\, n. [F. emb[^u]che, fr. the verb. See Ambush, v. t.]

1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.

Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. --Milton.

2. A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise.

Bold in close ambush, base in open field. --Dryden.

3. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait. [Obs.]

The ambush arose quickly out of their place. --Josh. viii. 19.

To lay an ambush, to post a force in ambush.

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Ambush

Am"bush\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ambushed; 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, Bu?h.]

1. To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.

By ambushed men behind their temple ?ai?, We have the king of Mexico betrayed. --Dryden.

2. To attack by ambush; to waylay.

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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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Ambush

Joshua at the capture of Ai lay in ambush, and so deceived the inhabitants that he gained an easy victory (Josh. 8:4-26). Shechem was taken in this manner (Judg. 9:30-45. Comp. Jer. 51:12).

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