Synonyms of bushwhacking

bushwhacking

verb

present participle of bushwhack

as in attacking

to take sudden, violent action against

a remote area of the park in which gangs of hoodlums have been known to bushwhack lone joggers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• attacking
• raiding
• assaulting
• storming
• ambushing
• charging
• striking
• robbing
• descending (on or upon)
• turning (on)
• swarming
• invading
• flying at
• jumping (on)
• rushing
• sicking
• setting on
• going in (on)
• siccing
• assailing
• setting at
• besetting
• tearing into
• pouncing (on or upon)
• setting upon
• pitching into
• going at
• trashing
• beating up on
• mugging
• rounding on
• mobbing
• waylaying
• bombing
• surprising
• flanking
• plundering
• lighting into
• sacking
• cannonading
• blitzing
• cannoning
• surprizing
• looting
• nuking
• pillaging
• ganging up (on)
• besieging
• bum-rushing
• battering
• buffeting
• ravaging
• bombarding
• harrying
• ambuscading
• beleaguering
• banging away (at)
• barraging
• plastering
• foraying
• enveloping
• overrunning
• pressing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• protecting
• covering
• securing
• defending
• guarding
• shielding