embush

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verb

To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.

OriginMiddle English embushen ← Old French embuissier →
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Meanings

verbembush (third-person singular simple present embushes, present participle embushing, simple past and past participle embushed)

present singular third person embushes · participle present embushing · participle past embushed · past embushed

  1. obsoleteTo place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.

    […]embushing himselfe presently among the bushes and brambles

    1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Frenchembuissier
  2. Middle Englishembushen
  3. Englishembush

From Middle English embushen, enbusshen, enbuschen, from Old French embuissier, enbuschier. Compare ambush, imbosk.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “embush,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embush.

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