Embussing

/ɪmˈbʌsɪŋ/ verb

Definition

The act of concealing troops or people in bushes or vegetation.

Etymology

Present participle of embuss. This form would have been used in military reports and orders from the 17th-19th centuries to describe ongoing tactical positioning.

Kelly Says

The -ing form of embuss reveals how soldiers needed different grammatical forms to describe the ongoing process of hiding versus the completed state of being hidden, creating very specific military vocabulary.

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