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PRONUNCIATION OF BUSHWHACK

bushwhack  [ˈbʊʃˌwæk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BUSHWHACK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bushwhack is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb bushwhack in English.

WHAT DOES BUSHWHACK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of bushwhack in the English dictionary

The first definition of bushwhack in the dictionary is to ambush. Other definition of bushwhack is to cut or beat one's way through thick woods. Bushwhack is also to range or move around in woods or the bush.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BUSHWHACK

PRESENT

Present
I bushwhack
you bushwhack
he/she/it bushwhacks
we bushwhack
you bushwhack
they bushwhack
Present continuous
I am bushwhacking
you are bushwhacking
he/she/it is bushwhacking
we are bushwhacking
you are bushwhacking
they are bushwhacking
Present perfect
I have bushwhacked
you have bushwhacked
he/she/it has bushwhacked
we have bushwhacked
you have bushwhacked
they have bushwhacked
Present perfect continuous
I have been bushwhacking
you have been bushwhacking
he/she/it has been bushwhacking
we have been bushwhacking
you have been bushwhacking
they have been bushwhacking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I bushwhacked
you bushwhacked
he/she/it bushwhacked
we bushwhacked
you bushwhacked
they bushwhacked
Past continuous
I was bushwhacking
you were bushwhacking
he/she/it was bushwhacking
we were bushwhacking
you were bushwhacking
they were bushwhacking
Past perfect
I had bushwhacked
you had bushwhacked
he/she/it had bushwhacked
we had bushwhacked
you had bushwhacked
they had bushwhacked
Past perfect continuous
I had been bushwhacking
you had been bushwhacking
he/she/it had been bushwhacking
we had been bushwhacking
you had been bushwhacking
they had been bushwhacking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will bushwhack
you will bushwhack
he/she/it will bushwhack
we will bushwhack
you will bushwhack
they will bushwhack
Future continuous
I will be bushwhacking
you will be bushwhacking
he/she/it will be bushwhacking
we will be bushwhacking
you will be bushwhacking
they will be bushwhacking
Future perfect
I will have bushwhacked
you will have bushwhacked
he/she/it will have bushwhacked
we will have bushwhacked
you will have bushwhacked
they will have bushwhacked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been bushwhacking
you will have been bushwhacking
he/she/it will have been bushwhacking
we will have been bushwhacking
you will have been bushwhacking
they will have been bushwhacking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would bushwhack
you would bushwhack
he/she/it would bushwhack
we would bushwhack
you would bushwhack
they would bushwhack
Conditional continuous
I would be bushwhacking
you would be bushwhacking
he/she/it would be bushwhacking
we would be bushwhacking
you would be bushwhacking
they would be bushwhacking
Conditional perfect
I would have bushwhack
you would have bushwhack
he/she/it would have bushwhack
we would have bushwhack
you would have bushwhack
they would have bushwhack
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been bushwhacking
you would have been bushwhacking
he/she/it would have been bushwhacking
we would have been bushwhacking
you would have been bushwhacking
they would have been bushwhacking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you bushwhack
we let´s bushwhack
you bushwhack
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to bushwhack
Past participle
bushwhacked
Present Participle
bushwhacking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BUSHWHACK


bethwack
bɪˈθwæk
bullwhack
ˈbʊlˌwæk
googlewhack
ˈɡuːɡəlˌwæk
paddywack
ˈpædɪˌwæk
paddywhack
ˈpædɪˌwæk
quack
kwæk
quack-quack
ˈkwækˈkwæk
swack
swæk
thwack
θwæk
WAAC
wæk
wack
wæk
whack
wæk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BUSHWHACK

bushlike
bushman
bushman´s singlet
bushmanship
bushmaster
bushmeat
bushmen
bushpig
bushranger
bushranging
bushtit
bushveld
bushwa
bushwalk
bushwalker
bushwalking
bushwhacker
bushwhacking
bushwoman
bushy

WORDS THAT END LIKE BUSHWHACK

attack
back
black
chack
cookshack
feedback
fly hack
go back
hack
hardhack
in the black
jack
lack
lifehack
out of whack
pack
shack
tacmahack
the right track
top whack

Synonyms and antonyms of bushwhack in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bushwhack» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BUSHWHACK

Find out the translation of bushwhack to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bushwhack from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bushwhack» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

bushwhack
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bushwhack
570 millions of speakers

English

bushwhack
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bushwhack
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضربة بوش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

bushwhack
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bushwhack
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

bushwhack
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bushwhack
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bushwhack
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

bushwhack
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

bushwhack
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

bushwhack
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bushwhack
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mở lối đi ngang rừng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

bushwhack
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बुशवॅक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bushwhack
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colpo di Bush
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bushwhack
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

bushwhack
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pacalesti
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

bushwhack
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bushwhack
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bushwhack
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

raske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bushwhack

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BUSHWHACK»

The term «bushwhack» is regularly used and occupies the 95.636 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BUSHWHACK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «bushwhack» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «bushwhack» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bushwhack

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUSHWHACK»

Discover the use of bushwhack in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bushwhack and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Bushwhack
Three women, six men and one dog set out on a hiking trip in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest which goes terribly wrong.
Gerald M. Chicalo, 2010
2
Knick Knack Bushwhack
Count and sing along with this lively Aussie version of the classic tune ‘Knick Knack Paddywack’!
‎2014
3
Rocky Mountain National Park: The Complete Hiking Guide
89), leave the trail and bushwhack northwest to 9,800 feet. Contour northwest to the north side of Castle Rock. Descend into Spruce Canyon, negotiating rock slabs and thick forest to Spruce Creek. Turn southwest and bushwhack 1.5 Looking ...
‎2005
4
Algorithms and Computation: 12th International Symposium, ...
The algorithm BUSHWHACK presented here uses a subgraph to render an optimal path in the discrete graph by dynamically adding edges. This technique has been used by a number of prior precedents, but our BUSHWHACK algorithm,  ...
Peter Eades, Tadao Takaoka, 2001
5
Red River Gorge North: A Rock Climbing Guidebook to ...
LOWER GORGE This route ascends the sandy dihedral on the right side of the Directly above Bushwhack Crack is this short but powerful overhanging hand crack in a dihedral. Start with a high, flaring hand jam and campus up to another one.
Ray Ellington, 2013
6
Sarah Bishop
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother, who take opposite sides in the War of Independence, Sarah Bishop flees from the British who seek to arrest her and struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
Scott O'Dell, 1980
7
A Marine's Promise to God
One day the whole company got flown to the top of a mountain which was an artillery base called Firebase Bushwhack. We were to be the guards of the base in case of attack and would be there for a week, which was like getting a week's ...
David L. Ray, 2010
8
Trails and Tribulations: Confessions of a Wilderness Pathfinder
Bushwhack Bob,” I told him a little reluctantly. “Good luck, you'll need it,” the pilot said with disdain and a slight grin. I pried more information about Bushwhack Bob out of him than I felt comfortable with, careful not to let my clients overhear our ...
Hap Wilson, 2009
9
For Your Tomorrows: I Give You My Today
Finally, and unexpectedly, there was Busch Pelletier, leader of a band called Bushwhack. One night Bushwhack was playing in Bangor. I attended and was surprised to see David, a Berklee keyboardist who I had played with in the Boston ...
F. Howard Shapiro, 2013
10
Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion Of Seeds And Other Late ...
The Dispersion Of Seeds And Other Late Natural History Writings Henry D. Thoreau Bradley P. Dean. Does neither this nor that but botches both: I see many a pasture over which the pitch or white pine are spreading, where the bushwhack is ...
Henry D. Thoreau, Bradley P. Dean, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUSHWHACK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bushwhack is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Orlando man dies hiking Alaskan mountain trail
Bentz said it's not known if Blaisdell went off the trail on purpose or got lost and tried to "bushwhack down the mountain" in hopes of finding ... «WPTV.com, Jul 15»
2
NATIONAL MONUMENT
From there, a lengthy bushwhack through rugged terrain is rewarded by views of The Reef and Railroad Gulch, rock formations only visible by ... «Chaffee County Times, Jul 15»
3
Devil's Staircase last, best place in Oregon Coast Range for …
Devil's Staircase hike The bushwhack hike to Devil's Staircase in the Siuslaw National Forest and on Coos Bay BLM land of the Oregon Coast ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
4
Swimming to altitude
I have even come to find myself seeking out a good bushwhack every now and again. Not always for the bushwhack itself, but also for the ... «Juneau Empire, Jul 15»
5
Next step in CZ trail saga
In the early days of the trail, riders were forced to “bushwhack and drag” their bicycles across these streams or tightrope on fallen logs. In 2012 ... «Pamplin Media Group, Jul 15»
6
How to break through a jungle of ETFs
Exchange-traded funds are excellent portfolio-building tools, but you need to bushwhack your way through an ever-expanding jungle of funds ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
7
Vermont State Police Tactical Team Praised for Role in Manhunt
Lozier said he and his team members had to bushwhack through the dense and buggy wilderness and thick swamps of parts of the Adirondack ... «NECN, Jul 15»
8
How to Spit Roast a Goose in the Wild
We were thankful for the added sustenance, as the days to come would be filled with numerous long rapids and tough bushwhack portaging. «CANOE & KAYAK, Jul 15»
9
Connecticut's DEEP Offers Safety Tips For Swimming, Hiking
It's easier to get lost if you take shortcuts or bushwhack – and it can harm the environment by increasing erosion. NEVER climb on waterfalls or ... «The Daily Voice, Jul 15»
10
Ride at Night - An Idiot's Guide to Bikepacking on Glaciers (Summer …
He was evidently prepared to overlook the probable outcome – that we'd bushwhack several kilometres with bikes before pushing them a short ways through ... «Pinkbike.com, Jul 15»

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