dash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: dashes
form: dashing
form: dashed
form: dashed
Etymology: From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.
Senses: examples: text: He dashed across the field.
text: As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.
ref: 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 670:
synonyms: bolt
rush
sprint
glosses: To run quickly or for a short distance.
examples: text: I have to dash now. See you soon.
synonyms: word: go
word: take off
word: beat it
word: bug off
word: remove
word: bugger off
word: book
word: bounce
word: buzz off
word: chuck
word: cut one's stick
word: dash
word: depart
word: duck out
word: exit
word: get away
word: get out
word: go
word: go away
word: go out
word: GTFO
word: leave
word: make tracks
word: move on
word: namous
word: part
word: piss off
word: pull up stakes
word: put out
word: start
word: start out
word: set forth
word: set off
word: set out
word: run along
word: sling one's hook
word: split
word: take off
word: take leave
word: take one's leave
word: take wing
word: quit
glosses: To leave or depart.
examples: text: He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
text: There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
ref: 1865, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “The Shipwreck”, in [Sophia Thoreau; William Ellery Channing], editors, Cape Cod, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 14:
text: Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter XXI, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: beat
word: whack
word: bang
word: baste
word: batter
word: beat
word: belabor
word: blow
word: boom-boom
word: buffet
word: butt
word: calcitrate
word: dab
word: dash
word: dowse
word: fetch one a blow
word: flap
word: give toco
word: kick
word: knock
word: hammer
word: hit
word: impact
word: jerk
word: lunge
word: patter
word: pat
word: pelt
word: pink
word: poke
word: pummel
word: punch
word: pound
word: tap
word: thrash
word: thump
word: thwack
word: rap
word: slam
word: slap
word: smite
word: strike
word: swap
word: vapulate
word: whack
word: whip
word: yerk
glosses: To destroy by striking (against).
examples: text: The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
text: If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 792:
text: The rooks are blown about the skies;
The forest crack’d, the waters curl’d,
⁠The cattle huddled on the lea;
⁠And wildly dash’d on tower and tree
The sunbeam strikes along the world: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 24:
text: They say that I’m way too cold, I never get tired of rappin / My word is bang where I come from / Watch be one work is magic / Do it and dash it / Smile on MAT / No way this peng one acting / Who got whacked and who got slapped / And who got spared by dashes
ref: 2018 January 24, “Irrelevant Things”, performed by C1 from LTH:
synonyms: word: chuck
word: feck
word: fling
word: sling
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw violently.
examples: text: On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
text: The very source and fount of Day
Is dash’d with wandering isles of night.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 41:
text: [W]hen I draw any faulty character, I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it, and take care to dash it with such particular circumstances as may prevent all such ill-natured applications.
ref: 1712 January 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, December 31, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 262; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 305:
synonyms: dust
powder
sparge
scatter
speckle
strew
glosses: To sprinkle; to splatter.
examples: text: to dash wine with water
synonyms: adulter
corrupt
debase
pollute
sophisticate
glosses: To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
examples: text: Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
text: Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 – 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
synonyms: word: snuff
word: wreck
word: annihilate
word: bag
word: baptize
word: bereave of life
word: blight
word: bring down
word: bump off
word: bury
word: cack
word: compromised to a permanent end
word: croak
word: crush
word: dash
word: deactivate
word: dead
word: demolish
word: destroy
word: dispatch
word: dispose of
word: do
word: do in
word: dust
word: eliminate
word: end
word: eradicate
word: ex
word: exterminate
word: finish
word: finish off
word: flatten
word: grease
word: knock off
word: lay waste to
word: make away with
word: mortify
word: neutralize
word: obliterate
word: off
word: pay off
word: pick off
word: polish off
word: pop off
word: punch someone's ticket
word: put an end to
word: put down
word: put someone out of their misery
word: put six feet under
word: put to sleep
word: ravage
word: rub out
word: ruin
word: scotch
word: scupper
word: scuttle
word: send to eternity
word: send to hell
word: send to the grave
word: send to the great beyond
word: send to the next life
word: slay
word: slaughter
word: smash
word: smite
word: snuff
word: squash
word: stiff
word: stop someone's clock
word: take
word: terminate
word: terminate with extreme prejudice
word: top off
word: top
word: torpedo
word: take care of
word: take down
word: take out
word: waste
word: wax
word: wet
word: whack
word: wipe out
word: wreck
word: destroy
word: annihilate
word: aerosolize
word: atomize
word: benothing
word: bewreck
word: blot out
word: blotto
word: dash
word: decompose
word: demolish
word: desolate
word: devastate
word: diffuse
word: disintegrate
word: disperse
word: dissolve
word: eliminate
word: eradicate
word: erase
word: exterminate
word: extinguish
word: extirpate
word: fuck
word: harry
word: jazz
word: lay waste
word: level
word: liquidate
word: nuke
word: obliterate
word: pull down
word: pulverize
word: race
word: raze
word: ravage
word: remove
word: ruin
word: stamp out
word: total
word: unbreed
word: unexist
word: unmake
word: uproot
word: waste
word: wipe out
word: wipe off
word: wreck
glosses: To ruin; to destroy.
raw_tags: of hopes or dreams
examples: text: Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
synonyms: word: deject
word: depress
word: aggrieve
word: attrist
word: begloom
word: begrieve
word: besorrow
word: grieve
word: bring down
word: contristate
word: dash
word: deject
word: depress
word: desolate
word: dispirit
word: engrieve
word: forset
word: get down
word: grieven
word: moan
word: oppress
word: rue
word: sadden
word: sadden up
word: tristitiate
word: ungladden
word: unhappy
word: upset
glosses: To dishearten; to sadden.
examples: text: He dashed down his eggs.
text: She dashed off her homework.
qualifier: usually with down or off
glosses: To complete hastily.
examples: text: "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter I, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
text: Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table.
ref: 2002, Robert Andrews, “Twenty”, in A Murder of Promise, 1st edition, New York City: Putnam's, published 2002, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 181:
glosses: To draw or write quickly; jot.
examples: text: Dash his impudence! Who is that scoundrel?
synonyms: darn
eff
frig
glosses: Damn (in forming oaths).
Derived terms: airdash
dash down
dash it all
dash off
dash on
dash someone's hopes
dine and dash
gas and dash
interdash
outdash
smash and dash
splash-and-dash
todash