MEANING
To attack from a concealed position where the target is taken by surprise.
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Words that belong together
- ambuscade a patrol
- ambuscade the travelers
On the page
The creature ambuscaded the patrol where the tunnel narrowed.
Something had ambuscaded the travelers without leaving a track in the snow.
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Word forms
- Base
- ambuscade
- Past tense
- ambuscaded
- Past participle
- ambuscaded
- Present participle
- ambuscading
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- ambuscade
- Present continuous
- am/is/are ambuscading
- Present perfect
- have/has ambuscaded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been ambuscading
- Past
- ambuscaded
- Past continuous
- was/were ambuscading
- Past perfect
- had ambuscaded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been ambuscading
- Future
- will ambuscade
- Future continuous
- will be ambuscading
- Future perfect
- will have ambuscaded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been ambuscading
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: ambuscade; ambuscades; ambuscaded; ambuscaded; ambuscading Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: ambuscades.
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