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ambuscade

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am⋅bus⋅cade

  [am-buh-skeyd, am-buh-skeyd] noun, verb, -cad⋅ed, -cad⋅ing.
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–noun
1. an ambush.
–verb (used without object)
2. to lie in ambush.
–verb (used with object)
3. to attack from a concealed position; ambush.
Origin:
1575–85; < MF embuscade, alter. (under influence of OF embuschier; see ambush ) of MF emboscade < OIt imboscata, fem. ptp. of imboscare, v. deriv. with in- in- 2 of bosco wood, forest < Gmc *bosk- bush 1

Related forms:
am⋅bus⋅cad⋅er, noun
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am·bus·cade   (ām'bə-skād', ām'bə-skād')   
n.  An ambush.
tr.v.   am·bus·cad·ed, am·bus·cad·ing, am·bus·cades
To attack suddenly and without warning from a concealed place; ambush. See Synonyms at ambush.

[French embuscade (from Old French embuschier, to ambush) and Old Italian imboscata (from feminine past participle of imboscare, to ambush), both from Frankish *boscu, bush, woods.]
am'bus·cad'er n.
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