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counterambush

noun

Etymology

From counter- + ambush.

  1. derived from *buskaz✻
  2. derived from *busk✻
  3. derived from boscus — “wood”
  4. derived from en-
  5. derived from enbuscier
  6. inherited from enbuschen
  7. prefixed as counterambush — “counter + ambush”

Definitions

  1. An ambush set up in response to another ambush.

  2. To set up an ambush in response to another ambush.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for counterambush. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA