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ambushed

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈæm.bʊʃt//

Having been the target of an ambush.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of ambushsimple past and past participle of ambush

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been the target of an ambush.

  2. 2

    figurativeHaving been subjected to a shock for which one is unprepared.

Forms

comparative
more ambushed
superlative
most ambushed
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).