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单词 bushwhack
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bushwhack

/ˈbʊʃwak /
verb
1 [no object] (often as noun bushwhacking) North American & Australian /NZ Live or travel in bush country: I have not seen a bear yet after seven days of bushwhacking...
  • Slithering, clambering, and clawing through bush - literally bushwhacking - is unique to Blue Mountain canyoning.
  • Satisfied with my day's bushwhacking, I take a worn trail to see Morning Glory Pool, one of the most photographed images in the world.
  • If age and economic class, the traditional explanations for bushwhacking, did not determine who went into the bush, what did?
1.1 [with adverbial of direction] Cut or push one’s way through dense vegetation: he’d bushwhacked down the steep slopes...
  • I briefly consider bushwhacking my way into the jungle in a parallel traverse of the Stilwell Road, or whatever is left of it.
  • Apart from the rare dirt road, you're bushwhacking through terrain that is not kind to sneakers.
  • Unfortunately, borrowers who take the time to read credit card agreements often finding themselves bushwhacking through a thicket of dense prose.
1.2Work clearing scrub and felling trees in bush country.Examining what you might do if all plans go south means that the company has alternative paths roughly traced instead of having to bushwhack untrodden forest.
2 [no object] North American Engage in guerrilla warfare.To be sure, one can use official sources to identify uniformed Confederates who turned to bushwhacking after being caught behind enemy lines....
  • The most common charge, however, was bushwhacking.
  • Sometimes, Union troops in West Virginia simply arrested whoever was handy in response to bushwhacking, especially if arms were present.
2.1 [with object] Surprise (someone) by attacking them from a hidden place; ambush.I was emotionally bushwhacked as I watched the TV coverage of the first lawful gay and lesbian marriages in Massachusetts....
  • When that time arrives, you become the one to bushwhack him.
  • But sometimes it was the locals who were bushwhacked out of fortunes by false promises of funds from China.
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