bushwack

bushwack (third-person singular simple present bushwacks, present participle bushwacking, simple past and past participle bushwacked)

1. Alternative spelling of bushwhack
   • 2009 August 2, Peter Stevenson, “Easy to Be Hard”, in New York Times‎:

     Before Phillips puts on the rubber gloves and leads us through a psychoanalytic interpretation of kindness — complete with morsels like “in order to desire, men debase women; in order to desire, women keep their desires secret (even from themselves)” — the authors bushwack through the history of kindness.

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