Usually means: Await stealthily to ambush someone.
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  3. lie in wait: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. lie in wait: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (lie in wait)

▸ verb:  To be hiding, waiting to ambush or attack someone, or simply to accost them unexpectedly.

Similar:
ambush, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, bushwhack, scupper, lay for, insidiate, forlay, watch one's back, more...

Opposite:
ambush, attack, charge, advance, offensive

Phrases:
to lie in wait, more...

Adjectives:
ambushed, perdu, work-to-rule, put up, put-up, sit-in, action, lay, stale, getaway, sit-down

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Similar:
ambush, waylay, lurk, ambuscade, bushwhack, scupper, lay for, insidiate, forlay, watch one's back, more...

Opposite:
ambush, attack, charge, advance, offensive

Phrases:
to lie in wait, more...

Adjectives:
ambushed, perdu, work-to-rule, put up, put-up, sit-in, action, lay, stale, getaway, sit-down



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