Definition of "ambuscades" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambuscade. (verb)
• Plural form of ambuscade. (noun)

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• "Force may, without doubt, be justly repelled by force, but not by treachery and fraud; for I do not call the stratagems of war, such as ambuscades, masked batteries, false attacks, etc., frauds or treachery:"
• "This man, while blazing trails for people to access the Ohio country, killed to defend himself, and once, Daniel Boone, but a psychopath would simply have set traps, ambuscades, etc, for the sole purpose of murder."
• "The towers shone as the rest of the city subsided into shadow, and I saw it all plain, how Lanx had battened on the feud, grown taller by way of brawls and ambuscades, duels and murders, as its people busied themselves making and destroying."