Definitions for ambushes

ambushes am·bush

Spelling: [am-boo sh]
IPA: /ˈæm bʊʃ/

Ambushes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 247 anagrams from letters in ambushes (abehmssu).

Definitions for ambushes

noun

  1. an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise:
  2. an act or instance of attacking unexpectedly from a concealed position.
  3. the concealed position itself:
  4. those who attack suddenly and unexpectedly from a concealed position.

verb (used with object)

  1. to attack from ambush.

Origin of ambushes

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English enbuss(h)en Middle French embuschier to place men in ambush, literally, to set in the woods, equivalent to em- im

Examples for ambushes

In one ambush in late July, 11 Hezbollah fighters were killed, according to Lebanese security sources.

Firing from ambush and moving from place to place, he would seem more than one man.

Darkness, the ambush and the caution of sharpshooters were there.

No mountains are here, but this is a great country for ambush.

We're only two, but we've got the advantage of the ambush, and that's a big one.

They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.

Opponents call the technique “ambush elections” and say the rules do not leave enough time for management to make its case.

He was killed instantly by a blast in an ambush launched on our vehicles outside of a schoolhouse.

She would lure him to a Paris suburb where the gang waited in ambush.

Besides, they can rake us with bullets from ambush, while we're climbing up the ridge.

Word Value for ambushes
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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