Meanings
verbbushwhack (third-person singular simple present bushwhacks, present participle bushwhacking, simple past and past participle bushwhacked)
present singular third person bushwhacks · participle present bushwhacking · participle past bushwhacked · past bushwhacked
- To travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress.
For hours we bushwhack through a study section of Jatun Sacha in search of Minquartia, sliding down muddy draws.
1990 August, Boyd Gibbons, “Missouri's Garden of Consequence”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 131 - To ambush.
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
Translations
Finnish raivautua
- raivautuato travel through thick wooded country
German sich durchs Dickicht schlagen
- sich durchs Dickicht schlagento travel through thick wooded country
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