Usually means: Hidden attack by concealed persons.
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  1. ambuscade: Merriam-Webster
  2. ambuscade: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ambuscade: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ambuscade: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ambuscade: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ambuscade, ambuscade: Wordnik
  7. ambuscade: Wiktionary
  8. ambuscade: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ambuscade: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ambuscade: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ambuscade, ambuscade: Dictionary.com
  12. Ambuscade: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ambuscade: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ambuscade: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ambuscade: Rhymezone
  16. Ambuscade: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ambuscade: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ambuscade: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ambuscade: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ambuscade: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. ambuscade: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ambuscade)

noun:  (dated) An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.
noun:  The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush.
noun:  The body of troops lying in ambush.
verb:  (dated) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

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