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ambushing

SayAM-buu-shing/ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪŋ/

Noun pluralambushings

2 meanings of ambushing

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  1. 1
    attacking from hidingverb
    Present participle and gerund of ambush.

    Bandits had been ambushing travelers at the narrow mountain pass for months.

    Ambushing prey from the tall grass near the water hole is how the leopard gets through the dry season.

    Note

    Two verb jobs share this spelling. After be it builds the progressive (they were ambushing the convoy); as a gerund it names the action and still takes a direct object (ambushing the convoy was risky). Once it takes the, an of phrase or a plural (the ambushing of the patrol, two ambushings) it has become the plain noun for an ambush.

  2. 2
    the attack (event)nouncountable or uncountable
    A surprise attack made by people who have been lying in wait out of sight; an ambush.

    Investigators pieced together how the ambushing of the police patrol had been planned.

    A wave of ambushings along the border forced the convoy to travel only by day.

ambushing is a form of ambush

ambush, verb: To make a surprise attack on someone or something from a place where the attackers have been lying in wait. Full entry

Forms
ambushambushes he/she/itambushing -ing formambushed past tense, past participle
Spelling
ambush → ambushing: add -ing

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