Usually means: Surprising someone from a concealed position.
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  1. ambushing: Merriam-Webster
  2. ambushing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ambushing: Vocabulary.com
  4. ambushing: Wordnik
  5. ambushing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ambushing: Wiktionary
  7. Ambushing, ambushing: Dictionary.com
  8. ambushing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ambushing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Ambushing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. ambushing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. ambushing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ambushing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ambushing: Legal dictionary

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  1. ambushing: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  An ambush.

Similar:
lie in wait, ambuscade, lying in wait, lurk, still-hunt, waylay, trap, bushwhack, scupper, counterambush, more...

Opposite:
ambuscade, surprise, attack, assault, raid

Types:
attacking, laying in wait, hiding, sneaking up, more...

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Similar:
lie in wait, ambuscade, lying in wait, lurk, still-hunt, waylay, trap, bushwhack, scupper, counterambush, more...

Opposite:
ambuscade, surprise, attack, assault, raid

Types:
attacking, laying in wait, hiding, sneaking up, more...



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