Definition of "ambuscade" []

• An ambush. (noun)
• To attack suddenly and without warning from a concealed place; ambush. See Synonyms at ambush. (verb-transitive)

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• "Wherefore, then, did he steal in ambuscade into my palace, but to betray either my honor or my life, – perhaps both!"
• "The Amalekites and Canaanites, who had been lying in ambuscade expecting their movement, rushed down upon them from the heights and became the instruments of punishing their guilty rebellion."
• "Lord Beaufort surprised them by a clever ambuscade from the stable wall; he told Mary he had been quite mistaken and wrong in what he had asserted, and he was sorry that she had overheard it."