Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb to live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla.
- intransitive verb to cut one's way through the woods or bush.
- transitive verb to lie in ambush for, lie in wait for.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
travel through thickwooded country , cutting awayscrub to makeprogress - verb to
fight , as aguerilla , especially in wooded country - verb to
ambush
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
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Examples
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"bushwhack" by rabblerowzer on Thursday, Jul 26, 2007 at 10: 00: 54 AM
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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
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shenping Wu et al. 2010
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It wasn't easy; I had to bushwhack, using my arms as machetes.
Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1 Richard Bangs 2010
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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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