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Dash   /dæʃ/   Listen
Dash

noun
1.
Distinctive and stylish elegance.  Synonyms: elan, flair, panache, style.
2.
A quick run.  Synonym: sprint.
3.
A footrace run at top speed.
4.
A punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text.  Synonym: hyphen.
5.
The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.  Synonym: dah.
6.
The act of moving with great haste.  Synonym: bolt.
verb
(past & past part. dashed; pres. part. dashing)
1.
Run or move very quickly or hastily.  Synonyms: dart, flash, scoot, scud, shoot.
2.
Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over.  Synonym: smash.
3.
Hurl or thrust violently.  Synonym: crash.  "Waves were dashing against the rock"
4.
Destroy or break.
5.
Cause to lose courage.  Synonyms: daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off.
6.
Add an enlivening or altering element to.



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"Dash" Quotes from Famous Books



... forged ahead, but lost so many men that they were at last forced to retreat, gaining no advantage except at Lagnicourt village, to one part of which they clung tenaciously. Immediately the British organized a counterattack, which was carried out with dash and spirit. The Germans were driven out of the village and 300 prisoners were taken. Some 1,500 dead were left in ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... Arish. His aircraft was always busy, but the bombing was not often effective. Even the natives in the E.L.C. (Egyptian Labour Corps) began to grow accustomed to these raids and steadily resisted their impulse to dash back along the line when a taube ...
— The Seventh Manchesters - July 1916 to March 1919 • S. J. Wilson
... utter ruin; but the wresting of Scotland from the grasp of its nobles was only wrought out in a struggle of life and death. Few figures are more picturesque than the figures of the young Scotch kings as they dash themselves against the iron circle which girds them round in their desperate efforts to rescue the Crown from serfdom. They carry their life in their hands; a doom is on them; they die young and by violent deaths. One was stabbed by plotters in ...
— History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) - Puritan England, 1603-1660 • John Richard Green
... right. She saw Holmes dash from the room; she saw Eleanor and the other girls being led upstairs. And then she not only heard, but saw the pursuit of her that was begun. Men with lanterns searched the grounds; they looked behind every bush. But, though a single glance, almost, would have revealed her ...
— A Campfire Girl's Happiness • Jane L. Stewart
... says the other a little wildly, and drawing back to dash the tears from her eyes. "Then remember them your way and I 'll remember them mine, and so our paths go east and west: (then turning to me,) I'm sure I ask your pardon, Ma'am, for what must appear so declamatory and high-flown. We Welsh folk, like all the other ...
— The Ladies - A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty • E. Barrington


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