Bushwhack

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To make one's way through thick woods by cutting away bushes and branches.
  • verb-intransitive. To travel through or live in the woods.
  • verb-intransitive. To fight as a guerrilla in the woods.
  • v. To attack suddenly from a place of concealment; ambush. See Synonyms at ambush.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
  • v. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
  • v. to ambush
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. to lie in ambush for, lie in wait for.
  • verb-intransitive. to live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla.
  • verb-intransitive. to cut one's way through the woods or bush.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. wait in hiding to attack
  • v. cut one's way through the woods or bush
  • v. live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla
    • Verb Form
    bushwhacked    bushwhacking    bushwhacks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wait    work    make    live   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ambush    scupper    lie for    waylay    lurk    ambuscade   
     
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