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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bushwhack en · VERB

Etymology

From bush + whack.

Meanings

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

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
bushwhacking	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
bushwhacked	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
bushwhacked	Tense=Past		lexicographic
bushwhacks	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic

Relateds

bushwhacking · bushwhacker

Translations (2)

fi raivautua (to travel through thick wooded country) · de sich durchs Dickicht schlagen (to travel through thick wooded country)