Ambuscade is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AMBUSCADE in dictionary:

VERB:
• (French) to lay an ambush, also AMBUSCADO
• ambush (someone)
• A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.
• A place in which troops lie hid, to attack an enemy unexpectedly.
• The body of troops lying in ambush.
• To post or conceal in ambush; to ambush.
• To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.
• To lie in ambush.
• wait in hiding to attack
• ambush or lie in ambush
NOUN:
• the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
• ambush
• an ambush

Words related to AMBUSCADE

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Words that contain AMBUSCADE

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How to use AMBUSCADE in a sentence

• And one day the Remi, pursuing the Bellovaci with too much ardor, fell into an ambuscade.
• The Indians drew the Concord people into an ambuscade and only one escaped.
• I had scarcely steadied myself on my feet, when a tall figure made a rush from some near ambuscade and seized me by the collar.
• It was a pleasant surprise to have such a fact as this breaking upon us from an ambuscade, to help out a half-formed narrative which I had feared was hopeless of completion.
• He had another encounter with the wild-dog, who treacherously attacked him in flank from ambuscade.
• Timidly he made his way forward in the shelter of a large patch of shadow cast by the orange-trees, dragging himself along, almost, like a thief afraid of an ambuscade.
• I kept a good look-out after this, riding swiftly where the country was open, and slowly where there might be an ambuscade.
• From their ambuscade they would be able to shoot down their pursuers or capture them as they felt inclined.
• At that instant Iphicrates set his ambuscade in motion, and dashed against the Spartan at full speed.
• When the vanguard were well past the ambuscade, Chabrias and his men sprang up from their hiding-place, and poured a volley of javelins and stones upon the enemy.
• Ardaburius, who probably still commanded in Mesopotamia, had drawn the Persian force opposed to him into an ambuscade, and had destroyed it, together with its seven generals.
• Hastening forward, he laid an ambuscade on the line of march of his foes, and awaited their approach.
• The cavalry were ordered not to pursue a flying force, for the country was well suited for concealment, and they might be tempted into an ambuscade.
• Another, Girolamo, who sought refuge in France, was shot down in an ambuscade while pursuing his amours with a gentle lady.
• The ducks, rising at sight of the scout, flew high directly over the ambuscade.
• Its neighbor was larger, though he reasoned that if he were to make a selection for an ambuscade he would not choose that one either.
• He was not even watching for a second ambuscade, and fortunately for him, there was none.
• Here they found another ambuscade, but as barren and desert as the former.
• Being thus provided they prosecuted their journey, which having continued for the space of an hour or thereabouts, they met with an ambuscade of Indians.
• Whenever you hit a trail follow it, but go slow and keep your eyes peeled for an ambuscade.
• In the same county, the earl of Cromartie fell into an ambuscade, and was taken by the militia of Sutherland, who likewise defeated a body of the rebels at Goldspie.
• This was no less than to lay an ambuscade for the Inca and seize him in the face of his army, holding him as a hostage for the safety of the Christians.
• The destruction of villages and the deadly ambuscade of bodies of men followed each other in quick succession.
• I believed not that they would take it, for Indian warfare ran more to ambuscade and surprise than to assault in the open field.
• He did make a breach in the wall but, as he lost a number of soldiers through an ambuscade, he transferred his position into Media.
• He, forsooth, delighted at the success of his stratagem, which showed that not even Fabius was proof against his cunning, planted an ambuscade not far from Metapontum.
• Directing his attention, therefore, wholly to his own peculiar arts, he looked out for an opportunity for planting an ambuscade.
• The Romans, who proceeded without exploring their way, having fallen into the ambuscade, as many as two thousand soldiers were slain, and about twelve hundred made prisoners.
• A Captain Lloyd, out with a reconnoitring party in Taranaki, fell, rather carelessly, into an ambuscade, where he and six of his people were killed and a dozen wounded.
• The colonel, looking around, discovered that he was in the centre of a powerful ambuscade, into which the enemy had silently allowed him to pass, without his observing them.
• The above-mentioned captain, Alonso Martin Quirante, made an ambuscade, in which he killed twenty-one Hollanders and captured four.

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