different between ambush vs outleap

English

Etymology

From Middle English enbuschen, from Old French enbuscier, anbuchier (verb) (whence Middle French embusche (noun)), from Old French en- + Vulgar Latin boscus (“wood”), from Frankish *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, heavy stick”). Compare ambuscade. The change to am- from earlier forms in en- is unexplained. More at bush.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, US, UK) IPA^(key): /?æm.b??/

Noun

ambush (plural ambushes)

1. The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack by surprise.
2. An attack launched from a concealed position.
3. The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait.

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Verb

ambush (third-person singular simple present ambushes, present participle ambushing, simple past and past participle ambushed)

1. (transitive) To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
   • 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour

     By ambush'd men behind their temple laid / We have the king of Mexico betray'd.

2. (transitive) To attack by ambush; to waylay.

Derived terms

• ambushable

Translations

Further reading

• ambush at OneLook Dictionary Search
• ambush in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From out- +? leap.

Noun

outleap (plural outleaps)

1. A sally; flight; escape.
2. A bursting forth; an ambush; a sudden quick effort.
   • 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter XIV, page 173

     The outleap of fury in the dagger-thrust had evidently exhausted him.

Verb

outleap (third-person singular simple present outleaps, present participle outleaping, simple past and past participle outleapt or outleaped)

1. To leap out, as if from an ambush.
2. To leap beyond or farther than.

Anagrams

• peal out