embush

To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.

Verb

  1. To 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. […],...

Origin

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

Forms

embushes embushing embushed