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Antonyms for ambushment

Grammar : Noun
Spell : am-boo sh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæm bʊʃ

Definition of ambushment

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French embuscher (13c., Modern French embûcher) "to lay an ambush," from en- "in" + busch "wood," apparently from Frankish *busk "bush, woods" (see bush (n.)). Related: Ambushed; ambushing.
  • As in ambush : noun lying in wait; concealed position
Example sentences :
  • A difficult matter it was, too, to keep this Mohican boy snug in the ambushment.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Their overnight bivouac was not above a mile beyond the glade of ambushment.
  • Extract from : « The Master of Appleby » by Francis Lynde
  • While he spoke these things, Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind him.
  • Extract from : « The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version » by Various
  • So from that on we went as men whose lives are held in pawn by a hidden foe, looking at every turn for an ambushment.
  • Extract from : « The Master of Appleby » by Francis Lynde
  • On the 8th August they came to an ambushment all prepared, but it had been abandoned for some unknown reason.
  • Extract from : « The Personal Life Of David Livingstone » by William Garden Blaikie
  • I hold it a sin to kill the second buck afore the first is eaten, unless a march in front, or an ambushment, be contemplated.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • What I fear is an ambushment, in which my lover will be carried off by those wicked men.
  • Extract from : « A Clerk of Oxford » by Evelyn Everett-Green
  • Still I see no need, why the grave of an honest man should be hid, like a Red-skin in his ambushment.
  • Extract from : « The Prairie » by J. Fenimore Cooper
  • Also Sir Kay came out of an ambushment with five knights with him, and they six smote other six down.
  • Extract from : « Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II) » by Thomas Malory
  • I am not a red-skin born, and it is more a white man's gifts to fight openly than to lie in ambushment.
  • Extract from : « The Pathfinder » by James Fenimore Cooper

Synonyms for ambushment

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