ambush
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ambush/ˈambʊʃ/
▶noun a surprise attack by people lying in wait in a concealed position. ▶verb attack from a concealed position.
– origin ME: from OFr. embusche (n.), embuschier (v.), based on a late L. word meaning ‘to place in a wood’; rel. to bush1.
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