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Embushed vs Ambushed - What's the difference?

embushed | ambushed |

As verbs the difference between embushed and ambushed

is that embushed is past tense of embush while ambushed is past tense of ambush.

embushed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (embush)

    • embush

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
    • (Shelton)
    (Webster 1913)

    ambushed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ambush)

    • ambush

    English

    Noun

    (ambushes)
  • The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
  • An attack launched from a concealed position.
  • * Milton
    • Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege / Or ambush from the deep.
  • The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait.
  • * Bible, Josh. viii. 19
    • The ambush arose quickly out of their place.

    Derived terms

    * ambush marketing * ambush journalism

    Verb

    (es)
  • To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
  • * Dryden
    • By ambushed men behind their temple laid / We have the king of Mexico betrayed.
  • To attack by ambush; to waylay.