bushwhack

Other forms of bushwhack

past tense

bushwhacked·

present participle

bushwhacking·

third person

bushwhacks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bushwhack

What does bushwhack mean?

bushwhack means "wait in hiding to attack". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bushwhack?

bushwhack has 2 syllables: bush-whack. The stress falls on "bush". In IPA it is /ˈbʊʃˌwæk/.

What is another word for bushwhack?

Close synonyms include ambush, scupper, waylay, lurk, ambuscade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bushwhack a common word?

bushwhack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bushwhack?

1 word rhymes with bushwhack. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.