Word Meanings - AMBUSH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

Additional info about word: AMBUSH

1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton. 2. A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise. Bold in close ambush, base in open field. Dryden. 3. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait. The ambush arose quickly out of their place. Josh. viii. 19. To lay an ambush, to post a force in ambush.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMBUSH)

• Trap
• Snare
• ambush
• stratagem
• noose
• pitfall

Related words: (words related to AMBUSH)

• SNARE
  An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because it has stretched across its lower head a
• AMBUSHER
  One lying in ambush.
• PITFALLING
  Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.
• SNARER
  One who lays snares, or entraps.
• AMBUSHMENT
  An ambush. 2 Chron. xiii. 13.
• PITFALL
  A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind. Sir T. North.
• STRATAGEM
  An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but
• AMBUSH
  1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.
• NOOSE
  A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.
• STRATAGEMICAL
  Containing stratagem; as, a stratagemical epistle. Swift.
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• INSNARE
  Etym: 1. To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means. "Insnare a gudgeon." Fenton. 2. To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle.
• ENSNARE
  To catch in a snare. See Insnare.
• BURNOOSE; BURNOUS
  cf. F. bournous, burnous, Sp. al-bornoz, a sort of upper garment, 1. A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
• ENAMBUSH
  To ambush.