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ambulance

[ am-byuh-luhns ]

noun

  1. a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital.
  2. (formerly) a field hospital.


ambulance

/ ˈæʊəԲ /

noun

  1. a motor vehicle designed to carry sick or injured people
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ambulance1

1800–10; < French, equivalent to ( ô辱ٲ ) ambul ( ant ) walking (hospital) + -ance -ance. See ambulant
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ambulance1

C19: from French, based on ( ô辱ٲ ) ambulant mobile or field (hospital), from Latin ܱ to walk
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Medics rushed him into an ambulance where they began working to stabilise him.

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Mobile phone footage has emerged that appears to contradict Israel's account of why soldiers opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck on March 23, killing 15 rescue workers.

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A Palestinian paramedic who survived the attack, speaking to the BBC, challenged the Israeli account of how five ambulances, a fire engine and a UN vehicle were fired on while responding to emergency calls.

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"The IDF did not randomly attack an ambulance," Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar claimed, when questioned at a news conference, echoing the IDF's statements.

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As soon as they hear a body has been recovered, they crowd around the ambulance it is placed in.

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