0 past simple and past participle of ambush --
1 to suddenly attack someone after hiding and waiting for them: --
They were ambushed by a large number of men, probably 50.
He and his men were ambushed just before they arrived at the village.
When these young men are ambushed, there is practically no opportunity whatever to retaliate.
The soldiers now being sniped and ambushed are the servants of the people responsible to the people.
He believes that people are "ambushed by death", and that hospitals never prepare families for the anguish and emotional pain of bereavement.
I am sorry that my noble friend should have been ambushed in this way.
The vehicles were travelling together but became separated, and the second vehicle was ambushed by bandits as it neared a road bend.
Would he not agree that an ambush presupposes that it is known that the people to be ambushed are likely to come?
