Synonyms:
ambush, ambuscade, lying_in_wait, trap
Meaning: the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
ambush, scupper, bushwhack, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, lie_in_wait
Meaning: wait in hiding to attack
Synonyms:
still-hunt, ambush
Meaning: hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing
Usage examples
We must mind it isn't an ambush.
"And you will place four men in ambush at the front and at the back.
From my place of ambush, I could hear him pant aloud as he struck the blows.
The wagon-shed was an excellent place for ambush; and the ranger got inside it safely.
Without springs or snares, she lies in ambush, among the flowers, and awaits the arrival of the quarry, which she kills by administering a scientific stab in the neck.
The sergeant's wrist was fastened to that of the French peasant, and it had been whispered in his ear that in case of an ambush the first bullet fired would be through his head.
The long line of battlements, the massive buttresses, the angular entrance cut through solid rock, crooked, abrupt, with places where fighting men can lie in ambush, all is as Shakespeare knew it.
However, when he fought with Obodas, king of the Arabians, who had laid an ambush for him near Golan, and a plot against him, he lost his entire army, which was crowded together in a deep valley, and broken to pieces by the multitude of camels.
And now I began to feel that I was neglecting my business, that since I had been so foolhardy as to come ashore with these desperadoes, the least I could do was to overhear them at their councils, and that my plain and obvious duty was to draw as close as I could manage, under the favourable ambush of the crouching trees.
He also laid a great many men in ambush in many places of the mountains, and was superior in all his attacks upon them; and when he had been conqueror after so glorious a manner, he was made high priest, and also freed the Jews from the dominion of the Macedonians, after one hundred and seventy years of the empire [of Seleucus].