Ambush
verb
To suddenly attack someone from a hidden position.
The soldiers were ambushed in the forest by the enemy troops.
Often appears as...
- ambush the enemy
- fall into an ambush
noun
A surprise attack from a hidden place.
The soldiers set up an ambush in the thick forest to catch the enemy off guard.
Often appears as...
- fall into an ambush
- set up an ambush
verb
To confront someone suddenly and unexpectedly with difficult or unwelcome questions or facts.
Reporters ambushed the celebrity as she left the restaurant.
Often appears as...
- ambush interview
- ambush with questions
verb
To suddenly attack someone from a hidden position.
The soldiers were ambushed in the forest by the enemy troops.
Often appears as...
- ambush the enemy
- fall into an ambush
noun
A surprise attack from a hidden place.
The soldiers set up an ambush in the thick forest to catch the enemy off guard.
Often appears as...
- fall into an ambush
- set up an ambush
verb
To confront someone suddenly and unexpectedly with difficult or unwelcome questions or facts.
Reporters ambushed the celebrity as she left the restaurant.
Often appears as...
- ambush interview
- ambush with questions
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Often used when referring to surprise military tactics or historical battles.
The army's strategy was to ambush their opponents at dawn.
Pro Tip 2/3Hidden Attack
Emphasizes a sudden and unexpected attack from a concealed position.
The bandits lay in ambush, waiting for the caravan to pass by.
Pro Tip 3/3Surprise Element
The success of an ambush often relies on the element of surprise.
For years, highwaymen would ambush travelers on this road.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Often used when referring to surprise military tactics or historical battles.
The army's strategy was to ambush their opponents at dawn.
Pro Tip 2/3Hidden Attack
Emphasizes a sudden and unexpected attack from a concealed position.
The bandits lay in ambush, waiting for the caravan to pass by.
Pro Tip 3/3Surprise Element
The success of an ambush often relies on the element of surprise.
For years, highwaymen would ambush travelers on this road.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Often used when referring to surprise military tactics or historical battles.
The army's strategy was to ambush their opponents at dawn.
Pro Tip 2/3Hidden Attack
Emphasizes a sudden and unexpected attack from a concealed position.
The bandits lay in ambush, waiting for the caravan to pass by.
Pro Tip 3/3Surprise Element
The success of an ambush often relies on the element of surprise.
For years, highwaymen would ambush travelers on this road.
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Video examples
First Look: The Long...
hard-hitting television. This is the closest we can get without being there ourselves. They ambushed us to draw out the rescues. Now they're gonna come for us for real. When you watch it, you literally feel that you are trapped in the situation with our characters.
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Why do cats have...
the small but sharp differences between them help the cat judge the precise distance of its target. In fact, many other ambush hunters also have vertically elongated pupils— but mainly those whose eyes are located closer to the ground.
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Inside the Green Berets:...
indicating that they have an ambush ahead of us at this time we'd like to know what is available at right now mind the air see if I can set up an immediate over here Jose the team's air support specialist sense a distress call to all
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Deep Sea Shark Stakeout...
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So they are ambush predators. They do scavenge. They're opportunistic. - So I would imagine that helps keep the ecosystem pretty healthy too. - Yeah, yeah. Definitely. - - Hard to sex from this angle,
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Deadly Venomous Viper PIPE...
once locked onto a scent the ambush hunter settles into place and waits hanging motionless coiled in a characteristic S shape ready to pounce as a prey approaches the pit viper employs its most remarkable trait its
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When Lions Work...
eye out and will viciously protect their territory or Pridelands from intruders females meanwhile typically hunt for the pride in a highly coordinated ambush where each lioness has her own position in the attack
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Top 5 Slithering Snake...
rattlesnakes belong to a group called pit vipers found all over the new world like all vipers they're ambush predators there's a lot we don't know about snakes that's one of the things that makes them dangerous
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Why good leaders make...
to help protect a group of government officials, a group of Afghan government officials, who would be meeting with some local village elders. The column came under ambush, and was surrounded on three sides,
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Crocs Eating Dinos PIPE...
water's edge with any ambush predator like super croc this would have saved the dinosaur's life this dinosaur will not be so lucky
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What Lurks in the...
lifeless but it's home to a unique cast of mud dwellers the sea toad it is an ambush predator with an enormous mouth
Video examples
First Look: The Long...
hard-hitting television. This is the closest we can get without being there ourselves. They ambushed us to draw out the rescues. Now they're gonna come for us for real. When you watch it, you literally feel that you are trapped in the situation with our characters.
Video examples
Why do cats have...
the small but sharp differences between them help the cat judge the precise distance of its target. In fact, many other ambush hunters also have vertically elongated pupils— but mainly those whose eyes are located closer to the ground.
Video examples
Inside the Green Berets:...
indicating that they have an ambush ahead of us at this time we'd like to know what is available at right now mind the air see if I can set up an immediate over here Jose the team's air support specialist sense a distress call to all
Video examples
Deep Sea Shark Stakeout...
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So they are ambush predators. They do scavenge. They're opportunistic. - So I would imagine that helps keep the ecosystem pretty healthy too. - Yeah, yeah. Definitely. - - Hard to sex from this angle,
Video examples
Deadly Venomous Viper PIPE...
once locked onto a scent the ambush hunter settles into place and waits hanging motionless coiled in a characteristic S shape ready to pounce as a prey approaches the pit viper employs its most remarkable trait its
Video examples
When Lions Work...
eye out and will viciously protect their territory or Pridelands from intruders females meanwhile typically hunt for the pride in a highly coordinated ambush where each lioness has her own position in the attack
Video examples
Top 5 Slithering Snake...
rattlesnakes belong to a group called pit vipers found all over the new world like all vipers they're ambush predators there's a lot we don't know about snakes that's one of the things that makes them dangerous
Video examples
Why good leaders make...
to help protect a group of government officials, a group of Afghan government officials, who would be meeting with some local village elders. The column came under ambush, and was surrounded on three sides,
Video examples
Crocs Eating Dinos PIPE...
water's edge with any ambush predator like super croc this would have saved the dinosaur's life this dinosaur will not be so lucky
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What Lurks in the...
lifeless but it's home to a unique cast of mud dwellers the sea toad it is an ambush predator with an enormous mouth
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Quote examples
Peter Beard
American Artist
I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.
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Billy Collins
American Poet
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
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Andrew Solomon
Writer
A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.
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Michael Winter
Canadian Writer
How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?
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John Sarbanes
American Politician
The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.
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Romeo Dallaire
Canadian Politician
Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.
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Jefferson Mays
American Actor
I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
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Genevieve Gorder
American Designer
It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
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Robert M. Hutchins
American Educator
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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Sam Childers
American Activist
I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
Quote examples
Peter Beard
American Artist
I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.
Quote examples
Billy Collins
American Poet
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
Quote examples
Andrew Solomon
Writer
A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.
Quote examples
Michael Winter
Canadian Writer
How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?
Quote examples
John Sarbanes
American Politician
The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.
Quote examples
Romeo Dallaire
Canadian Politician
Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.
Quote examples
Jefferson Mays
American Actor
I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
Quote examples
Genevieve Gorder
American Designer
It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
Quote examples
Robert M. Hutchins
American Educator
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Quote examples
Sam Childers
American Activist
I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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