ambush

1. 1.

   the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise

   Synonymsambuscadelying in waittrap

   Broadersurprise attack

   Narrowerdry-gulching

Other forms of ambush

plural

ambushes·

past tense

ambushed·

present participle

ambushing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ambush

What does ambush mean?

ambush means "wait in hiding to attack". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ambush?

ambush has 2 syllables: am-bush. The stress falls on "am". In IPA it is /ˈæmˌbʊʃ/.

What is another word for ambush?

Close synonyms include scupper, bushwhack, waylay, lurk, ambuscade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ambush a common word?

ambush is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ambush?

3 words rhyme with ambush. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.