0 past simple and past participle of ambush
1 to suddenly attack someone after hiding and waiting for them:
Beyond the veneer of elections, the state remains ambushed, privatised, repressive and unpopular.
Halhed thought that he had been ambushed while taking a leisure ride, while the villagers thought they were about to be attacked and therefore tried to defend themselves.
These are people who have been assassinated and ambushed in their homes.
Driving away from the meet she was ambushed by a number of the hunting fraternity and physically attacked.
It would be incredible if it were ambushed and bushwhacked there.
It was foisted on him; he was ambushed.
The intruder flees; the police are called, and invariably he is ambushed on the way home.
Would he not agree that an ambush presupposes that it is known that the people to be ambushed are likely to come?
