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bushwhacked

bushwhacked is the simple past and past participle of bushwhack.

Meaning of bushwhack

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

Questions about bushwhacked

What is bushwhacked the simple past and past participle of?
Bushwhacked is the simple past and past participle of bushwhack.

Words near bushwhacked in the dictionary

  1. bushwalks
  2. Bushway
  3. Bushways
  4. bushweed
  5. bushwhack
  6. bushwhacked
  7. bushwhacker
  8. bushwhackers
  9. bushwhacking
  10. bushwhackings
  11. bushwhacks

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