ambuscade. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

ambuscade

SYLLABICATION:	am·bus·cade
PRONUNCIATION:	mb-skd, mb-skd
NOUN:	An ambush.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: am·bus·cad·ed, am·bus·cad·ing, am·bus·cades To attack suddenly and without warning from a concealed place; ambush. See synonyms at ambush.
ETYMOLOGY:	French embuscade (from Old French embuschier, to ambush) and Old Italian imboscata (from feminine past participle of imboscare, to ambush), both from Frankish ^*boscu, bush, woods.
OTHER FORMS:	ambus·cader —NOUN


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