Synonyms of the word ambush


AMBUSHAMBUSCADE - BUSHWHACK - HUNT - LURK - RUN - SCUPPER - STILL-HUNT - TRAP - WAIT - WAYLAY

ambush

  • n. The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
  • n. An attack launched from a concealed position.
  • n. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait.
  • v. (transitive) To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
  • v. (transitive) To attack by ambush; to waylay.

ambuscade

  • n. (dated) An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.
  • n. The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush.
  • n. The body of troops lying in ambush.
  • v. (dated) To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

bushwhack

  • v. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.
  • v. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country.
  • v. to ambush.

hunt

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
  • v. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
  • v. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
  • v. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
  • v. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
  • v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor…
  • n. The act of hunting.
  • n. A hunting expedition.
  • n. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the…

lurk

  • v. To remain concealed in order to ambush.
  • v. To remain unobserved.
  • v. To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
  • v. (Internet) To view an internet forum without posting comments.
  • n. The act of lurking.

run

  • v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
  • v. (fluids) To flow.
  • v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
  • v. (social) To carry out an activity.
  • v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
  • v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
  • v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
  • v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  • v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
  • v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
  • v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  • v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
  • v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  • v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
  • v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
  • v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  • v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  • v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
  • v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
  • v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  • v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
  • v. To have growth or development.
  • v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  • v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
  • v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
  • v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
  • n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
  • n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
  • n. A pleasure trip.
  • n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  • n. Migration (of fish).
  • n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  • n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
  • n. A (regular) trip or route.
  • n. The route taken while running or skiing.
  • n. The distance sailed by a ship.
  • n. A voyage.
  • n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  • n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
  • n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
  • n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
  • n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
  • n. A trial.
  • n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
  • n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
  • n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
  • n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
  • n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
  • n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
  • n. Any sudden large demand for something.
  • n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
  • n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
  • n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  • n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
  • n. (cricket) A point scored.
  • n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
  • n. Unrestricted use of.
  • n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  • n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  • n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
  • n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
  • n. A pair or set of millstones.
  • n. (video games) A playthrough.
  • n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
  • n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
  • n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
  • n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
  • adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
  • adj. Cast in a mould.
  • adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  • adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

scupper

  • n. (nautical) A drainage hole on the deck of a ship.
  • n. (architecture) A similar opening in a wall or parapet that allows water to drain from a roof.
  • v. (Britain) Thwart or destroy, especially something belonging or pertaining to another; compare scuttle.

still-hunt

  • v. (US) To hunt for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; to stalk.

trap

  • n. A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a…
  • n. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
  • n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
  • n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
  • n. The game of trapball itself.
  • n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
  • n. A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents…
  • n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
  • n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
  • n. (slang) A person's mouth.
  • n. (in the plural) Belongings.
  • n. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
  • n. (sports) Trapshooting.
  • n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
  • n. (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
  • n. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner…
  • n. (slang, informal, chiefly derogatory, offensive) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.
  • n. A kind of movable stepladder.
  • n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.
  • v. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
  • v. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
  • v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
  • v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
  • v. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell narcotics, especially in a public…
  • v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
  • n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap…
  • v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
  • n. (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.

wait

  • v. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now…
  • v. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
  • v. (intransitive, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
  • v. (obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
  • v. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
  • v. (obsolete) To defer or postpone (a meal).
  • v. (intransitive) To remain celibate while one's lover is unavailable.
  • n. A delay.
  • n. An ambush.
  • n. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
  • n. (in the plural, obsolete, Britain) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
  • n. (in the plural, archaic, Britain) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially…

waylay

  • v. (transitive) To lie in wait for and attack from ambush.
  • v. (transitive) To accost or intercept unexpectedly.

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