dash
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: dashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To run quickly or for a short distance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He dashed across the field.
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.
gloss: To leave or depart.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: I have to dash now. See you soon.
gloss: To destroy by striking (against).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.
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.
gloss: To throw violently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
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: […]
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
gloss: To sprinkle; to splatter.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
figuratively
sometimes
examples: On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall.
The very source and fount of Day
Is dash’d with wandering isles of night.
[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.
gloss: To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: to dash wine with water
gloss: To ruin; to destroy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
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.
gloss: To dishearten; to sadden.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
gloss: To complete hastily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He dashed down his eggs.
She dashed off her homework.
gloss: To draw or write quickly; jot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table.
gloss: Damn (in forming oaths).
pos: verb
tags: dated
euphemistic
transitive
examples: Dash his impudence! Who is that scoundrel?
gloss: Damn!
pos: intj
tags: euphemistic
Derived words: 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
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