bushwhack

[ US /ˈbʊʃˌwæk/ ]
VERB
  1. live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla
  2. wait in hiding to attack
  3. cut one's way through the woods or bush
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How To Use bushwhack In A Sentence

  • We bushwhacked and scree-slid back down, but the bighorn faded back into the rocks.
  • Sometimes, Union troops in West Virginia simply arrested whoever was handy in response to bushwhacking, especially if arms were present.
  • There was only one way to get into the area: land in a neighboring valley and bushwhack through a couple of thousand vertical feet of nasty terrain. The Ghost of Sheep River
  • We bushwhacked again but only for a few minutes to a dirt road, and started riding hard towards CP 19, the top of a heavily wooded mountain.
  • After six miles of scrambling, sinking, and bushwhacking, we were scraped and exhausted.
  • Because the goal in litigation is to beat the other side; and one way to do that is to resist producing documents and information during discovery in the hope of bushwhacking the other party at trial. Curtis Harrison: Facing Divorce in an Uncertain Economy with Collaborative Law
  • This required much bushwhacking along an old survey line.
  • These roads that were no longer in use had been partly washed away in spots and were grown over by alder trees, but easier than plain bushwhacking.
  • Bushwhacking is also a term for using a machete to hack through thick jungle grass or undergrowth, which is used more to scare off animals near you than to carve a path.
  • Firstly: Collette's family has experienced this kind of "bushwhacking" behaviour from the people who are supposed to care for her Dad. Death, Beacon, some anime Yaoi, boy and girl pics and me on the BBC
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