AMBUSH


Meaning of AMBUSH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ æmbʊʃ ]

( ambushes, ambushing, ambushed)

1.

If a group of people ambush their enemies, they attack them after hiding and waiting for them.

The Guatemalan army says rebels ambushed and killed 10 patrolmen.

VERB : V n

2.

An ambush is an attack on someone by people who have been hiding and waiting for them.

A policeman has been shot dead in an ambush.

N-VAR

3.

If someone is lying in ambush , they are hiding and waiting for someone, usually to attack them.

The gunmen, lying in ambush, opened fire, killing the driver.

PHRASE : PHR after v

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