- 1[intransitive] to live or travel in wild country
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- 2[intransitive] + adv./prep. to cut your way through bushes, plants, etc. in wild country We had to bushwhack through undergrowth.
- 3[transitive] bushwhack somebody to attack someone very suddenly from a hidden position synonym ambush
- 4[intransitive] to fight as a guerrilla
bushwhack
verbNAmE//ˈbʊʃwæk//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they bushwhack he / she / it bushwhacks
past simple bushwhacked
-ing form bushwhacking
noun [uncountable]See bushwhack in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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