All ambuscade synonyms
am·bus·cade
A a verb ambuscade
- bushwhack — to ambush
- attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
- trap — a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
- waylay — to intercept or attack from ambush, as in order to rob, seize, or slay.
- surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
- ambush — If a group of people ambush their enemies, they attack them after hiding and waiting for them.
noun ambuscade
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- ambushment — an act or instance of lying concealed so as to attack by surprise: The highwaymen waited in ambush near the road.