The AI-powered English dictionary
plural ambulances
An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. ] examples
(military) A mobile field hospital. ]
(obsolete, US) A prairie wagon. [Late 19c.]
third-person singular simple present ambulances, present participle ambulancing, simple past and past participle ambulanced
(transitive) To transport by ambulance. quotations examples
Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.
1918, Western Surgical Association: Transactions, volume 27, page 66