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From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
lying in wait
adj : waiting in concealment; in ambush; "an army lying in wait in
the forest"
n : the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack
by surprise [syn: ambush, ambuscade, trap]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
lying in wait
n.
(lb en law) the act of hiding and waiting for an individual with the
intent to kill or inflict serious bodily harm to that person
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
lying in wait
n.
(lb en law) the act of hiding and waiting for an individual with the
intent to kill or inflict serious bodily harm to that person
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
lying in wait
n.
(lb en law) the act of hiding and waiting for an individual with the
intent to kill or inflict serious bodily harm to that person
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
lying in wait
n.
(lb en law) the act of hiding and waiting for an individual with the
intent to kill or inflict serious bodily harm to that person
From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]
lying in wait /lˈaɪɪŋ ɪn wˈeɪt/
ενέδρα
From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) : [ bouvier ]
LYING IN WAIT. Being in ambush for the purpose of murdering another.
2. Lying in wait is evidence of deliberation and intention.
3. Where murder is divided into degrees, as in Pennsylvania, lying in
wait is such evidence of malice, that it makes the killing, when it takes
place, murder in the first degree. Vide. Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.
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