Synonyms for ambuscade

Grammar : Verb

Spell : am-buh-skeyd, am-buh-skeyd

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæm bəˌskeɪd, ˌæm bəˈskeɪd

Définition of ambuscade

Origin : 1580s, essentially a variant form of ambush (n.), representing a reborrowing of that French word after it had been Italianized. Ambuscade is from French embuscade (16c.), Gallicized from Italian imboscata, literally "a hiding in the bush," compounded from the same elements as Old French embuscher. Sometimes in English as ambuscado, with faux Spanish ending of the sort popular in 17c.

verb ambush

Example sentences :

How is it you know there is an ambuscade laid to catch us napping?
Extract from : « The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields » by Lieut. Howard Payson

This was the place of the ambuscade, where his army was cut to pieces.
Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers

Here a thousand Indians had planted themselves in ambuscade.
Extract from : « King Philip » by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

But the darkness, which had favored the ambuscade, now defeated their object.
Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum

And as to the wine-cup and slumber—these I guard against, even as a man might guard against an ambuscade.
Extract from : « Hiero » by Xenophon

The enemy, seeing it all through the thicket, were confirmed in their fears of an ambuscade.
Extract from : « Anabasis » by Xenophon

The ambuscade of the Ant-lion is classic; it does not differ greatly from the others.
Extract from : « The Industries of Animals » by Frdric Houssay

He was, however, drawn into an ambuscade, and dreaded the loss of his whole army.
Extract from : « Fox's Book of Martyrs » by John Foxe

"You jink from ambuscade to ambuscade of phrase like a fox," I cried.
Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro

The Republic, surprised by an ambuscade, wrestled with the coup d'état.
Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo

Antonyms for ambuscade

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