ambuscaded

Verb

ambuscade (third-person singular simple present ambuscades, present participle ambuscading, simple past and past participle ambuscaded)

1. (dated) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.
   • About noon we passed a small village in Merrimack at Thornton's Ferry, and tasted of the waters of Naticook Brook on the same side, where French and his companions, whose grave we saw in Dunstable, were ambuscaded by the Indians.1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, James R. Osgood, published 1873, page 228

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