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Definition of Lie in wait
1. Verb. Wait in hiding to attack.
Generic synonyms: Wait
Derivative terms: Ambuscade, Ambush, Ambusher, Bushwhacker, Lurker
Definition of Lie in wait
1. Verb. To be hiding, waiting to ambush or attack someone, or simply to accost them unexpectedly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lie In Wait
Literary usage of Lie in wait
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"... to be awake (above), ^f Also used in the phr. to lie in wait. waken, to awake.
(E.) Now usually transitive, but orig. intransitive only, ..."
2. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"... crossing—"Misfortunes never come Single"—Crossing of the Buffalo— Flight of
onr Animals—Peculiarities of the Buffalo—lie in wait for a Drove coming over ..."
3. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"6. to lie in wait for blood: 6. whiles they He in wait : KAL. ... 8: 2. lay thee
on ambush for the city 4. ye shall lie in wait 12. set them to lie in ..."
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