English-Italian translations for ambush

• imboscata
  Crescenti casi di commercializzazione "imboscata” e circolazione non autorizzata di sintesi sportive danneggiano al pari di qualsiasi pirateria. Rising instances of ambush marketing and circulation of unauthorised highlights is as damaging as any other kind of piracy.
  Domenica mattina, 12 soldati turchi e 32 curdi sono stati uccisi in un'imboscata curda. On Sunday morning, 12 Turkish soldiers and 32 Kurds were killed in a Kurdish ambush.
  Non possiamo non esigere di far luce sul destino di due giovani portoghesi spariti di recente in una brutale imboscata e in merito alla cui sorte regna un fitto mistero. On this point we must also demand the truth about the young lives of two Portuguese citizens who were killed recently in a brutal ambush, an event that is shrouded in mystery.

Definition of ambush

• The act of concealing oneself and lying in wait to attack by surprise
• The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; those who lie in wait
• To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy
• To attack by ambush; to waylay

Related words

• ambusher
• ambushee
• ambush marketing
• ambush predator