Bushwhack

Word BUSHWHACK
Character 9
Hyphenation bush whack
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Bushwhack"

What do we mean by bushwhack?

To force one's way through a forested or overgrown area where no path exists. intransitive verb

To travel through or live in the woods. intransitive verb

To fight as a guerrilla in the woods. intransitive verb

To attack suddenly from a place of concealment. synonym: ambush. intransitive verb

To act in the manner of a bushwhacker: sojourn in or beat about the bush

Engage in guerrilla warfare and fire from behind the bushes.

To cut bushes with a bushwhacker.

To hunt clucks by approaching them in a boat which has a screen around it to conceal the occupants.

To live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla. intransitive verb

To cut one's way through the woods or bush. intransitive verb

To lie in ambush for, lie in wait for. transitive verb

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

To fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country verb

To ambush verb

Wait in hiding to attack verb

Cut one's way through the woods or bush verb

Live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla verb

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

To fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country

To ambush

Synonyms and Antonyms for Bushwhack

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The word "bushwhack" in example sentences

"bushwhack" by rabblerowzer on Thursday, Jul 26, 2007 at 10: 00: 54 AM ❋ Unknown (2007)

While not positioned on actin in a way that readily converts to strong binding, Type 2 attachments are placed so that if they remained stationary while the actin target zone moved M-ward by 1 or 2 actin subunits, they would be positioned to "bushwhack" the target-zone actins and form Type 1 weak attachments (Supporting ❋ Shenping Wu Et Al. (2010)

But in desperately failing schools, where most kids lack basic skills, the only way to bushwhack a path out of the darkness is with a good, solid measuring stick. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was only one way to get into the area: land in a neighboring valley and bushwhack through a couple of thousand vertical feet of nasty terrain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the lesson learned on this odyssey was twofold: first, the treasures of solitude and eager trout are there for the asking if you're willing to hike, bushwhack, and sweat a bit; second, these fish still hang in a very fragile balance, and it's up to us to keep them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We bushwhack -- not barefoot -- over muddy streams and up through the tangle of vines and limbs, to the place where Marina waits. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Johnson's putter did not always cooperate, and he got into trouble with some of the bushwhack spots common to the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It wasn't easy; I had to bushwhack, using my arms as machetes. ❋ Richard Bangs (2010)

Once I was scouting a very large buck who lived in a very brushy draw, and intended to bushwhack him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I knew there must be some use for the treacherous bramble that can sorely interrupt a pleasant bushwhack! ❋ Laurie Constantino (2008)

My young Armenian guide had described it as a 3 hour hike but we got lost in the forest and had to bushwhack our way out through the overgrowth. ❋ Jack Garvey (2009)

Why confuse people with a scary looking forest to bushwhack when what they really enjoy is a meandering garden path? ❋ Harry (2009)

Balter's other recent journalistic coup thumbsucker was "Can Burner bushwhack Reichert?" ❋ Unknown (2006)

AND MORE BS!! this punk really thinks that the american folks are stupider than he is. sorry bushwhack nazi, i watched the budget committee on c-span this morning and the d.rep. from n. dakota spilled the beans on what you have tried hard to hide. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Occasionally, according to my mom, they'd even bushwhack him after midnight, when a dry mouth or a bad dream would wake him, and he'd reach or his slippers with the thought of heading downstairs to make himself a cup of tea or a stiff drink. ❋ Unknown (2008)

No, if I wanted to go native -- if I wanted to trade as locals do, on local stock exchanges, in local currencies -- I'd have to bushwhack the trail myself. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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