Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ambuscade
Participle: ambuscaded
Gerund: ambuscading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ambuscade |
| you | ambuscade |
| he;she;it | ambuscades |
| we | ambuscade |
| you | ambuscade |
| they | ambuscade |
Perfect
| I | have ambuscaded |
| you | have ambuscaded |
| he;she;it | has ambuscaded |
| we | have ambuscaded |
| you | have ambuscaded |
| they | have ambuscaded |
Past
| I | ambuscaded |
| you | ambuscaded |
| he;she;it | ambuscaded |
| we | ambuscaded |
| you | ambuscaded |
| they | ambuscaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had ambuscaded |
| you | had ambuscaded |
| he;she;it | had ambuscaded |
| we | had ambuscaded |
| you | had ambuscaded |
| they | had ambuscaded |
Future
| I | will ambuscade |
| you | will ambuscade |
| he;she;it | will ambuscade |
| we | will ambuscade |
| you | will ambuscade |
| they | will ambuscade |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ambuscaded |
| you | will have ambuscaded |
| he;she;it | will have ambuscaded |
| we | will have ambuscaded |
| you | will have ambuscaded |
| they | will have ambuscaded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ambuscade |
| you | ambuscade |
| he;she;it | ambuscade |
| we | ambuscade |
| you | ambuscade |
| they | ambuscade |
Perfect
| I | have ambuscaded |
| you | have ambuscaded |
| he;she;it | have ambuscaded |
| we | have ambuscaded |
| you | have ambuscaded |
| they | have ambuscaded |
Imperfect
| I | ambuscaded |
| you | ambuscaded |
| he;she;it | ambuscaded |
| we | ambuscaded |
| you | ambuscaded |
| they | ambuscaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had ambuscaded |
| you | had ambuscaded |
| he;she;it | had ambuscaded |
| we | had ambuscaded |
| you | had ambuscaded |
| they | had ambuscaded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ambuscade |
| you | would ambuscade |
| he;she;it | would ambuscade |
| we | would ambuscade |
| you | would ambuscade |
| they | would ambuscade |
Perfect
| I | would have ambuscaded |
| you | would have ambuscaded |
| he;she;it | would have ambuscaded |
| we | would have ambuscaded |
| you | would have ambuscaded |
| they | would have ambuscaded |
Imperative
| you | ambuscade |
| we | Let's ambuscade |
| you | ambuscade |
Verbs conjugated like 'ambuscade'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ambuscade'
ambulate,
abdicate,
abrade,
abscise,
abuse,
ambiguate,
ambush,
amputate,
amuse,
aquascape,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From French embuscade, from Italian imboscata from the past participle of imboscare (“to ambush”), from Vulgar Latin *imbosco (“I hide, ambush”) (see there for more), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambush. More at bush.
Sample Sentences
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About noon we passed a small village in Merrimack at Thornton's Ferry, and tasted of the waters of Naticook Brook on the same side, where French and his companions, whose grave we saw in Dunstable, were ambuscaded by the Indians. [1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, James R. Osgood, published 1873, page 228:]
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On the return to camp, the party was ambuscaded and dispersed, the officer and one man having been killed. [1849, Roswell Sabine Ripley, The War with Mexico, volume I, Harper & Brothers, page 106:]
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But aside from its love story, the picture is filled with the fighting and shooting, fording rivers with wagon trains, Indians ambuscading wagon trains, scouts who drink whisky and fight and ride magnificently. [1923, Carl Sandburg, film review dated 18 May 1923, re-printed in The Movies Are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928 (ed. Arnie Bernstein), Lake Claremont Press (2000), page 169]