enambush en · VERB
Etymology
From en- + ambush.
Meanings
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(obsolete) To ambush.
For which they went, within a vale close to a flood, whose stream Us'd to give all their cattle drink, they there enambush'd them
[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| enambushes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| enambushed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| enambushed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| enambushing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |