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Discover LudwigThe word "ambush" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a verb meaning to surprise attack someone or something from a hidden position. Example: The enemy troops ambushed the convoy as it drove through the jungle.
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ambush
verb
To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
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Insurgents killed at least four soldiers in an ambush on Monday.
The report said that abducted women and girls held by Boko Haram ranged in age from infancy to 65. "They and many others they saw in the camps were subjected to physical and psychological abuse; forced labour; forced participation in military operations, including carrying ammunition or luring men into ambush; forced marriage to the captors; and sexual abuse, including rape," the report says.
Was it Manish Prasad and Jeremy Cole, the two rogue vice cops who apparently set up the ambush under orders as yet unknown?
Adeola Fayehun's ambush of ageing Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has catapulted the queen of Nigerian satire, already a star in many countries in Africa, into the international spotlight.
I play through one encounter three times trying to find a way to not die, learning to maneuver, to ambush, to hide.
The de facto separatist government in Donetsk repeated on Tuesday lunchtime that the Ukrainian army was considered to be an "occupying force", and the ambush appeared to be a bloody restatement of their case.
Without trying, I also watched kestrels hovering and glimpsed the low dash of that thrilling ambush predator, the sparrowhawk.
Sneaky Sneaky is a cuter take on the idea, as you play a cartoon rogue who has to avoid detection and ambush his enemies.
Kevin Kearney is the second person to be killed by the terror group following the murder of prison officer David Black in an ambush on the M1 in November 2012.
The attack was an ambush and fatally effective.
And that she saw him with Kirk and then, furious at the betrayal, followed Kirk and killed her? Are there two separate things going on here – the death of Carly Kirk (by which Dryden seemed genuinely shocked) and the ambush to get rid of Tommy?
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