Ambuscade

Definitions: Ambuscade

Ambuscade

Noun

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

Verb

1. Wait in hiding to attack.

Date "ambuscade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Ambuscade (3 syl.) is the Italian imboscata (concealed in a wood). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Ambuscade

Synonyms: lying in wait (n), trap (n), ambush (v), bushwhack (v), lie in wait (v), lurk (v), scupper (v), waylay (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ambush	Lie in ambush; (hide oneself); lie in wait for, lurk; set a trap for; (deceive); ambuscade, ambush.
	Ambush, ambuscade; stalking horse; lurking hole, lurking place; secret path, back stairs; retreat; (refuge).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ambuscade

English words defined with "ambuscade": Ambuscaded, Ambuscading, Ambuscado ♦ Bushment ♦ To lay wait. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ambuscade": BODY ♦ Fall into a Snare ♦ Rose Sunday. (references)

Etymologies containing "ambuscade": Ambuscado. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Ambuscade (1928)
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Domain	Title
Books	Ambuscade (reference) Ambuscade Bd. With Thunder on the Buckhorn (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The spirit of ambuscade and lying in wait entered into their policy.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BODY-:SNATCHER:, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena. "One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall. "While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink! "Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade." Bettel K. Jhones
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"Ambuscade" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ambuscade" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	2	245,945

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ambuscade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pritë (ambush, barrage, blind, boom, sluice, wait). (various references)

Arabic		‏كمين (ambush, snare, trap, wait), ‏كمن (ambush, dwell, lie in wait, position, reside, smolder, smoulder, waylay), ‏مكمن (ambush, hiding place, lay, lurking, lurking place), ‏هاجم من مكمن (waylay). (various references)

Bulgarian		засада (ambush, off side, offside). (various references)

Czech		léèka (pitfall, snare, trap). (various references)

Finnish		väijytys (ambush, felonious assault), väijys (ambush). (various references)

French		embusquer (ambush), embuscade (ambush). (various references)

German		auflauern (bushwhack, lie in wait for, set a trap, set a trap for, to ambuscade, to bushwhack, waylay). (various references)

Greek		ενέδρα (ambush, lurking, lurking place, lying in wait), ενεδρεύω (ambush, lie in wait, lurk, skulk, snoop, waylay). (various references)

Hebrew		מארב (stakeout). (various references)

Hungarian		leshely (ambush, hide, lurk, lurking-place). (various references)

Italian		imboscata (ambush, felonious assault, wait). (various references)

Manx		cooyl-chlea (hold up). (various references)

Pig Latin		ambuscadeay

Portuguese		emboscada (ambush, felonious assault, wait). (various references)

Romanian		ambuscadã (ambush), sta la pândã (ambush, be on the watch, lie in ambush, lie in wait, lurch, spy, watch). (various references)

Russian		засада (ambush, duck blind, wait). (various references)

Scottish		feall-fhalach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaseda (ambush). (various references)

Spanish		emboscada (ambush). (various references)

Swedish		ligga i bakhåll (ambush), bakhåll (ambush, felonious assault). (various references)

Turkish		tuzak kurmak (ambush, lay a plot, lay a trap for, set a snare, set a snare for smb., set a trap for, set up, snare, trap), tuzak (a warm corner, ambush, catch, cobweb, come on, complot, decoy, gin, hook, lure, net, noose, snare, springe, toil, toilets, toils, trap, wire), tuzağa düşürmek (circumvent, decoy, enmesh, ensnare, entrap, gin, mesh, net, snare, springe, trammel, trap), pusuya yerleştirmek (ambush), pusuya yatmak (ambush, couch, lie in wait, lie in wait for, lurk, waylay), pusuya yatmış askerler (ambush), pusuya düşürmek (ambush), pusu (ambush, blind, wait). (various references)

Ukranian		влаштовувати засідку (ambush, lay an ambush), засідка (ambush, hide, roadblock, wait), бути в засідці. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ambuscade": ambuscaded, ambuscader, ambuscaders, ambuscades. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ambuscade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Albusate, embuscade. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-m-s-u"
	-2 letters: abduces, ambsace, aubades, sambaed, sambuca.
	-3 letters: abacus, abased, abduce, abused, amebas, amused, aubade, caused, daubes, medusa, muscae, sauced.
	-4 letters: abase, abeam, abuse, acmes, ameba, amuse, baaed, based, bauds, beads, beams, beaus, bemas, bused, cades, camas, cames, cased, cause, cubed, cubes, daces, dames, daube, daubs, duces, dumas, dumbs, mabes, maced, maces, mauds, meads, musca.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-m-s-u"
	+1 letter: ambuscaded, ambuscader, ambuscades.
	+2 letters: ambuscaders.
	+3 letters: candelabrums.
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