Translation for "to lie in wait" to spanish

To lie in wait

• acechar
• acechase

Translation examples

acechar

Whatever it was, it preferred to lie in wait for its victims along the lower trail.
Fuera lo que fuese, prefería acechar esperando a que sus víctimas pasaran por el camino.

Then, when we went down to lie in wait for the lion, his silence and his steadfast motionless endurance moved my admiration.
Entonces, cuando fuimos a acechar al león, su silencio y la capacidad de que hizo gala para la inmovilidad y la paciencia despertaron mi admiración.

He also spoke of his admiration for Sir Sidney Smith and the Royal Navy; and he invited me to lie in wait with him for a lion the next evening, using one of a very beautiful pair of rifles that he had recently acquired.
También habló con admiración de sir Sidney Smith y de la Armada real, y me invitó a acechar en su compañía a un león a la tarde siguiente, empleando para ello un par de preciosos rifles que había adquirido recientemente.

He began to lie in wait for Pompey, to hector him at every opportunity with Afranius's falseness, and Afranius, almost deprived of breath at the impudence of it, hammered away in Pompey's other ear with demands that he dismiss Favonius from his service.
Empezó a acechar a Pompeyo, a intimidarlo con bravatas a la menor oportunidad hablándole de la falsedad de Afranio, y éste, casi desprovisto de aliento ante la ignominia que aquello suponía, machacaba a Pompeyo en la otra oreja exigiéndole que despidiera a Favonio de su servicio.

And Tiger Jack would go up that hill even if an international conference of all the witches, bandits and ogres on the planet was taking place there, because he was a Navajo Indian, and he was fearless and invisible and silent as a puma and could climb and knew how to lie in wait for his enemies and then stab them with his knife.
Y Tiger Jack subiría a aquella colina aunque en ella estuviera celebrándose la convención internacional de todas las brujas, bandidos y ogros del planeta, porque era un indio navajo intrépido, silencioso e invisible como un puma, y sabía trepar y acechar al enemigo para caer luego sobre el con el puñal.