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ambushed, ppl. a.|ˈæmbʊʃt|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Placed or lying in ambush.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 288 Biside enbussed, was fiften hundred sped, In foure grete escheles. 1393Gower Conf. I. 260 This knight..Embuished upon horsebake. c1450Merlin xv. 246 Men enbusshed in that streite passage. 1481Caxton Myrr. ii. vi. 77 The hunters that ben embusshed by. c1590Marlowe Faustus 136 (Enter the ambushed Soldiers). 1667Dryden Indian Emp. i. ii. (1725) 336 Swarming Bands of ambush'd Men. 1810Coleridge Friend iii. xv. (1867) 211 The ambushed soldier must not fire his musket. 1861Russell in Times 29 July, The ambushed rifleman.
2. fig. Concealed so as suddenly to burst forth, come in view, or take by surprise.
1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 90 Her teares in troops still ambusht, waite to know What's her designe. 1798S. Rogers Epist. Friend 143 Tuneful echoes, ambushed at my gate. 1833Tennyson Poems 43, I wish I were her earring, Ambushed in auburn ringlets sleek. 1835J. Harris Gt. Teacher 267 Murder, ambushed in an unbreathed and unsuspected thought. 1839Bailey Festus 35/1 Till in some ambushed eddy it is sucked down. 1875Lowell Poet. Wks. (1879) 462 Half-tamed hamlets, ambushed round with woods. |