单词 | bushwhack |
释义 | 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...
1.1 [with adverbial of direction] Cut or push one’s way through dense vegetation: he’d bushwhacked down the steep slopes...
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....
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....
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