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   ambuscade

   /ˌambʊˈskeɪd/

   noun

   • 1. an ambush: dated "our sensibilities are being battered with reports of killings and ambuscades"

   verb

   • 1. ambush (someone): archaic "French and his companions were ambuscaded by the Indians"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from French embuscade, from Italian imboscata, Spanish emboscada, or Portuguese embuscada, based on a late Latin word meaning ‘to place in a wood’; related to bush1.

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