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bushwhacks

bushwhacks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bushwhacks

What is bushwhacks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bushwhacks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bushwhack.

Words near bushwhacks in the dictionary

  1. bushwhacked
  2. bushwhacker
  3. bushwhackers
  4. bushwhacking
  5. bushwhackings
  6. bushwhacks
  7. Bushwick
  8. bushwillow
  9. bushwillows
  10. bushwoman
  11. bushwomen

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