ambuscade

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (dated) An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.
2. The place in which troops lie hidden for an ambush.
3. The body of troops lying in ambush.

Verb

To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

Concetti

imboscata

appostamento

trappola

🪤

calappio

tendere un’imboscata a qn

appostarsi

agguato

sinonimi

ambush

lying in wait

lie in wait

waylay

bushwhack

lurk

trap

🪤

lurking-place

scupper

dry-gulching

lurking place

ambuscado

booby trap

ensnare

prowl

skulk

snoop

stalk

lie in wait for

an assault by surprise

Traduzioni

embuscade

Hinterhalt

ενέδρα

emboscada

auflauern

emboscada

hinderlaag

pusu

emboscar

tocaia

embusquer

comploter

χωσιά

amagar-se

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈæmbəsˌkeɪd/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From French embuscade, from Italian imboscata from the past participle of imboscare (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imbosco (“I hide, ambush”) (see there for more), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambush. More at bush.