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9 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
verb wait in hiding to attack
originFrom 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- ambsace 13
- sambuca 13
- abduces 12
- sambaed 12
- scubaed 12
- abduce 11
- aubades 10
- abacus 10
- amebas 10
- muscae 10
- bemad 10
- bemud 10