| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bush·whack |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b sh hw k , -wk |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: bush·whacked, bush·whack·ing, bush·whacks
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To make one's way through thick woods by cutting away bushes and branches. 2. To travel through or live in the woods. 3. To fight as a guerrilla in the woods. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To attack suddenly from a place of concealment; ambush. See synonyms at ambush. | | OTHER FORMS: | bushwhacker —NOUN
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