ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bushwhack

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Bushwhack is a verb meaning To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Word Forms

Synonyms for bushwhack

Depending on context, synonyms include lurk, ambuscade, scupper, ambush, waylay.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scupper, ambuscade, waylay, ambush, lurk, bushbash.

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