"bushwhack" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: bushwhacks [present, singular, third-person], bushwhacking [participle, present], bushwhacked [participle, past], bushwhacked [past]
Etymology: bush + whack Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bush|whack}} bush + whack Head templates: {{en-verb}} bushwhack (third-person singular simple present bushwhacks, present participle bushwhacking, simple past and past participle bushwhacked)
  1. to travel through thick wooded country, cutting away scrub to make progress
    Sense id: en-bushwhack-en-verb-Vvf17G-S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 34 5
  2. to fight, as a guerilla, especially in wooded country
    Sense id: en-bushwhack-en-verb-RXoLPCmo
  3. to ambush
    Sense id: en-bushwhack-en-verb-dk7SxmEW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: bushwhacking, bushwhacker

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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