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ambush noun. L15.
[Old French embusche, formed as AMBUSH verb.]
(A military disposition of) troops concealed in a wood or other place in order to surprise an enemy; an attack from such concealment. Also transf. & fig., (a disposition of) someone or something lying in wait; a surprise attack from concealment.
Shakespeare Richard II Once did I lay an ambush for your life. S. Johnson He that perishes in the ambushes of envy. Day Lewis These flowers..hummed all day with ambushes of bees and wasps. S. Naipaul An American congressman..had been shot and killed in an ambush at a remote jungle airstrip.