Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make one's way through thick woods by cutting away bushes and branches.
- v. To travel through or live in the woods.
- v. To fight as a guerrilla in the woods.
- v. To attack suddenly from a place of concealment; ambush. See Synonyms at ambush.
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.
Wiktionary
- 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
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. to lie in ambush for, lie in wait for.
- v. to live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla.
- v. to cut one's way through the woods or bush.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
Examples
“bushwhack" by rabblerowzer on Thursday, Jul 26, 2007 at 10: 00: 54 AM”
“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”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We bushwhack -- not barefoot -- over muddy streams and up through the tangle of vines and limbs, to the place where Marina waits.”
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“Johnson's putter did not always cooperate, and he got into trouble with some of the bushwhack spots common to the U.S.”
“It wasn't easy; I had to bushwhack, using my arms as machetes.”
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“Once I was scouting a very large buck who lived in a very brushy draw, and intended to bushwhack him.”
“I knew there must be some use for the treacherous bramble that can sorely interrupt a pleasant bushwhack!”
Recipe for Devil’s Club Gnocchi (or Spinach Gnocchi) with Gorgonzola Sauce
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