BUSHWHACKED Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

bushwhacked

verb

past tense of bushwhack

as in attacked

to take sudden, violent action against a remote area of the park in which gangs of hoodlums have been known to bushwhack lone joggers

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Evidence publicly presented in the Clancy case indicates Lindsay was the only adult at the family home when investigators believe the children were attacked.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
The Defense Ministry in Bucharest said that so far this year, Russia had attacked targets close to Romania's frontier 54 times, representing a significant increase on the 28 attacks close to the border in all of 2025.

— David Brennan, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026

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Hanoi, Vietnam — Vietnam has charged a man with rape after an American student said she was assaulted while in her bed during a group holiday.

— CBS News, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
Shakur and Knight were accused of having earlier assaulted Anderson inside an MGM Grand hotel and casino where Mike Tyson had just boxed.

— Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026

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That summer, Detroit was paralyzed by a violent uprising, which erupted after the city’s predominantly white police force raided a night club in a Black neighborhood.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Court records show that only one of the suits, on behalf of a woman and three children whose apartment was allegedly raided three separate times, remains open.

— Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026

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Gauff, who won the 2023 title beating Karolina Muchova, stormed out to a 5-0 lead in the first set on Sunday before winning 6-2.

— Jeff Wallner, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026
In his first enlistment in the infantry, Capers stormed a beach south of Beirut, Lebanon, in 1958, with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines.

— Ethan Rocke, Charlotte Observer, 20 Aug. 2026

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As Cole is driving Tibu back from a passing-of-the-torch party, the two are ambushed, and Tibu is killed.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
While there was a period of harmony between the two coasts, that imploded after Shakur was ambushed at a Times Square recording studio in November 1994.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2026

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