Definition & Meaning of "bushwhack"in English

to bushwhack

wait in hiding to attack

Grammatical Information

Regular

Present tense

bushwhacking

Past simple

bushwhacked

Past participle

bushwhacked

cut one's way through the woods or bush

live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla

to travel or live in wild, uncultivated land, often by cutting through undergrowth

Dialect

American

Examples

They spent weeks bushwhacking through the dense rainforest.

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