ambuscade
noun
[ ˌambəˈskeɪd ]
• an ambush.
• "our sensibilities are being battered with reports of killings and ambuscades"
ambuscade
verb
• ambush (someone).
• "French and his companions were ambuscaded by the Indians"
Origin:
late 16th century: from French embuscade, from Italian imboscata, Spanish emboscada, or Portuguese embuscada, based on a late Latin word meaning ‘to place in a wood’; related to bush1.
