What's the difference between ambush and insidiate?
Ambush
Definition:
(v. t.) A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.
(v. t.) A concealed station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise.
(v. t.) The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait.
(v. t.) To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy.
(v. t.) To attack by ambush; to waylay.
(v. i.) To lie in wait, for the purpose of attacking by surprise; to lurk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prince began ambushing fans in February this year, playing his first big shows since 1995 as he took over arenas in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds as well as intimate venues in London and Manchester.
(2) The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games ordered the campaign be taken down for breaching strict rules on ambush marketing of the event by brands that are not official sponsors.
(3) Excess military equipment – such as Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) and other weapons – get transferred to police departments, to communities large and small across the country, for free.
(4) Even after being ambushed by anti-terror cops when panicked Londoners reported "a bloke pretending to be a Muslim woman", I didn't complain.
(5) Then the people of Karamoja turned on each other, transforming the area into a wild west of cattle raids and ambushes.
(6) Or perhaps this latest ambush is just an excuse to resume the government’s internal warfare, which has been roiling away since January.
(7) • Sign up to play our great Fantasy Football game • Stats centre: Get the lowdown on every player • The latest team-by-team news, features and more • Follow the Guardian's Fans' Network now "We view ambush marketing in a very serious light and we urge people not to embark on these ambush campaigns," police said in a statement.
(8) "Jundollah uses a variety of terrorist tactics, including suicide bombings, ambushes, kidnappings and targeted assassinations."
(9) I take you very, very seriously.” Pretzell and Petry are like Bonnie and Clyde, pursuing a course of ambush through the German public Jakob Augstein, Der Spiegel Not for a long time has so much been written and said about a single German politician (other than Merkel).
(10) When the Seemanchal Express that had been ambushed in Katihar finally pulled into Delhi, traffickers rounded up the children who had remained on the train and shepherded their cargo towards the doors.
(11) The government’s Senate leader, Eric Abetz, said: “As I understand it, Kathy Jackson complained that she felt that she had been ambushed by the royal commission and had been treated very harshly.” Labor had postponed debate on the Senate motion several times amid negotiations with crossbenchers.
(12) It is understood that between 35 and 40 tickets allocated to Earle ended up in the hands of the marketing company said to have orchestrated the ambush marketing effort on behalf of the beer brand Bavaria via a third party.
(13) After the apparently radical notion of “fairness” ambushed its first budget, the Abbott government seemed to go through four stages of grief.
(14) Stalker began to think that special branch, supported by MI5, might be using informants to lure terrorism suspects into pre-planned ambushes, mounted by police officers who were indeed shooting to kill.
(15) The acting commander of border police in Kandahar, Abdul Razzaq Achakzai [Raziq], has acknowledged killing the victims, but has claimed (claims now proved false) that the killings took place during an ambush he conducted against Taliban infiltrators,” a report by the office of the EU envoy to Afghanistan said then.
(16) Fine – if they were going to ambush me, I would ambush right back.
(17) Many are streaming towards the Tunisian border crossing, with Egypt having already closed its own frontier after 21 of its border guards were killed in an ambush.
(18) Private Morales Matthews, from the same regiment, received a mention in dispatches for risking his own life to protect a colleague, apparently wounded, during an ambush.
(19) They were met by a police ambush on the outskirts of town.
(20) Hamas fighters hid in apartment buildings ready to ambush the IDF.
Insidiate
Definition:
(v. t.) To lie in ambush for.
Example Sentences:
(1) The controversy over the effects of low-level exposure to radiation enhances the perception of radiation as a particularly insidious phenomenon of nature.
(2) Meningiomas of the temporal bone are insidious and aggressive lesions.
(3) Onset is generally brutal, as in acute enteritis or an extradigestive infection (ENT...) but persists, or else, more often, the syndrome appears insidiously over several days.
(4) As the clinical presentation of "catheter infections" is often uncharacteristic and insidious, a definite diagnosis depends on bacteriological examination of the catheter.
(5) Seven of these patients had presented with insidious symptoms, seven had serum markers of hepatitis B infection, and the four who were HBsAg positive had relatively lower serum HBsAg concentrations than did those patients who continued with chronic persistent hepatitis.
(6) On the other hand, both blunt trauma and posterior stab wounds frequently caused isolated retroperitoneal duodenal lesions where the diagnosis was not evident on admission, but in which the insidious and progressive development of symptoms and signs drew attention to the need for laparotomy.
(7) The clinical presentations were similar to other forms of peritonitis complicating PD except for a more insidious onset.
(8) A 56-year-old woman developed insidiously progressive, painless weakness of her left hand.
(9) Patients with multiple choledochal stones usually presented with insidious onset of painless jaundice, simulating malignant bile duct obstruction, in contrast to the abrupt onset of cholangitis or pain experienced by patients with one to three stones.
(10) A 51-year-old female patient, admitted with a chief complaint of dizziness, had bulging of the occipital area, which had started insidiously.
(11) A women with longstanding seropositive rheumatoid arthritis presented with the insidious onset of a hyperviscosity syndrome.
(12) Respiratory distress may be insidious in onset and must be anticipated.
(13) In childhood, scoliosis is usually insidious and is rarely symptomatic.
(14) Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, although it is sometimes unrecognized and insidious, is one of the etiologies to be considered.
(15) This is incompetent journalism in its most insidious form."
(16) The Spurs were missing simple shots but insidiously squirmed their way back into the game, with James returning to Earth and Leonard in fine shooting form.
(17) Peritoneal pseudomyxoma has several main features: it is insidious, recurrent, obstinate and severe.
(18) Onset of pain was insidious and the symptoms were thought to be related to synovitis due to SLE.
(19) Tracheostomy may be a life saving procedure in these circumstances, but delay may prove fatal when its need arises insidiously.
(20) The early and precise diagnosis of linitis plastica-type tumours of the rectum and anal canal is difficult because of their insidious presentation and anaplastic nature.