Meaning

3 senses

  1. To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.

    sich durchs Dickicht schlagen

  2. To fight, as a guerrilla, especially in wooded country.

  3. To ambush.

More definitions
  • cut one's way through the woods or bush
  • live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla
  • wait in hiding to attack

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Tom bushwhacked Mary.

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Translations

1 languages
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By meaning 1
to travel through thick wooded country:

Origin

From bush + whack.

From bush + whack.

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Forms

bushwhacks, bushwhacking, bushwhacked, bushwhacked
Base formbushwhack · to bushwhack
3rd person singularbushwhacks
Present participlebushwhacking
Past simplebushwhacked
Past participlebushwhacked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybushwhack
he, she, itbushwhacks

Past simpleLesson

all personsbushwhacked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bushwhacked
he, she, ithas bushwhacked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bushwhack

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedbushwhackingbushwhacker

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bushA2bushelbushybusilybusinessA1
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