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embush

embush verb: to place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.

Verb

embush (third-person singular simple present embushes, present participle embushing, simple past and past participle embushed)

  1. (obsolete) To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
    • […]embushing himselfe presently among the bushes and brambles1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of embush

third-person singular presentembushes
present participleembushing
past participleembushed
pastembushed

Origin of embush

From Middle English embushen, enbusshen, enbuschen, from Old French embuissier, enbuschier. Compare ambush, imbosk.

Questions about embush

What does embush mean?
Embush means to place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
What part of speech is embush?
Embush is a verb.
What is the past tense of embush?
The past tense of embush is embushed.

Words near embush in the dictionary

  1. emburses
  2. embursing
  3. emburthen
  4. Embury
  5. embus
  6. embush
  7. embushed
  8. embushes
  9. embushing
  10. embushment
  11. embushments

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