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Plural of ambush

regular plural

The plural of ambush is ambushes.

Forms of ambush

Singularambush /ˈæm.bʊʃ/
Pluralambushes /ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Ambushes in a sentence

  • Even if their entire line collapses, they fall back in order, setting ambushes as they go.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Military Doctrine Codex entry. From the entry under fire
  • Television entrapment isn't new: the "Dateline" segments echo Mike Wallace's hidden-camera ambushes on "60 Minutes" in the 70's. . . .2006 May 17, Alessandra Stanley, “Gotcha! 'Dateline' Paves a Walk of Shame for Online Predators”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Apr 2014. From the entry ambush journalism

Meaning of ambush

  1. noun The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack or kill by surprise.
  2. noun An attack launched from a concealed position.
  3. noun The concealed position or state from which a surprise attack is launched.

Full definition of ambush

Questions about the plural of ambush

What is the plural of ambush?
The plural of ambush is ambushes.
Is ambush countable?
Ambush is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ambush (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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