dash

Plural: dashes

Noun

• distinctive and stylish elegance
  • "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
• a quick run
• a footrace run at top speed
  • "he is preparing for the 100-yard dash"
• 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
• the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
• the act of moving with great haste
  • "he made a dash for the door"
• Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
• Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
• A hyphen or minus sign.
• The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
• A short run, flight.
• A rushing or violent onset.
• Violent strike; a whack.
• A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
• A slight admixture.
• Ostentatious vigor.
• A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
• A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
• Ellipsis of dashboard.
• Ellipsis of dashboard.
• The dashboard of a social media user.
• A prime symbol.

Verb

Verb Forms: dashed, dashing, dashes

• To strike or throw violently; to smash.
• run or move very quickly or hastily
  • "She dashed into the yard"
• break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
• hurl or thrust violently
  • "He dashed the plate against the wall"
  • "Waves were dashing against the rock"
• destroy or break
  • "dashed ambitions and hopes"
• cause to lose courage
  • "dashed by the refusal"
• add an enlivening or altering element to
  • "blue paint dashed with white"
• To run quickly or for a short distance.
• To leave or depart.
• To destroy by striking (against).
• To throw violently.
• To sprinkle; to splatter.
• To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
• To ruin; to destroy.
• To dishearten; to sadden.
• To complete hastily.
• To draw or write quickly; jot.
• Damn (in forming oaths).

Intj

• Damn!

Examples

• Add a dash of vinegar.
• Aren't we full of dash this morning?
• Dash his impudence! Who is that scoundrel?
• He dashed across the field.
• He dashed down his eggs.
• He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
• He watched his hopes DASH as his opponent played a triple-word score.
• Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
• Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
• I have to dash now. See you soon.
• She dashed off her homework.
• The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
• There is a dash of craziness in his personality.
• to dash wine with water
• When the feds came they did the dash.

Synonyms

bolt, crash, dah, dart, daunt, elan, flair, flash, frighten away, frighten off, hyphen, pall, panache, scare, scare away, scare off, scoot, scud, shoot, smash, sprint, style, 4uck, GTFO, Holy Mother, Holy Mother of God, Mother of God, ace, adulter, aerosolize, aggrieve, annihilate, atom, atomize, attrist, aught, ay, backhander, bag, bang, baptize, baste, batter, beat, beat it, beep, begloom, begrieve, belabor, benefaction, benothing, bereave of life, besorrow, bewreck, bissel, bit, blankety-blank, blast, blight, blot out, blotto, blow, book, boom-boom, boon, bounce, bribe, bring down, buffet, bug off, bugger, bugger off, bummer, bump off, bung, bury, butt, buzz off, byrlady, cack, calcitrate, cast, chihuahua, chuck, chunk, coffee money, cold drink money, compromised to a permanent end, concession, consarn it, contristate, control panel, cook, corrupt, crap, croak, crud, crumb, crush, curses, cut one's stick, d'oh, dab, dadgummit, dagnabbit, dammit, damn, dang, dang it, darn, darn it, dash, dash it, deactivate, dead, debase, decompose, deject, demolish, depart, depress, desolate, destroy, devastate, diddly, diffuse, disintegrate, dispatch, disperse, dispirit, dispose of, dissolve, dizamn, do, do in, doggone, doggonit, donative, dot, douceur, dowse, drat, drop, duck out, dump, dust, dusting, eff, element, eliminate, end, energy, engrieve, eradicate, erase, ex, exit, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fairing, fark, feck, fetch one a blow, fiddle, fiddlefart, fiddlestick, fiddlesticks, finish, finish off, flap, flatten, fleck, fling, flip, flyspeck, fook, forset, frak, frick, frig, fuck, fuck me, fudge, get away, get down, get out, gift, give toco, glimpse, glint, go, go away, go out, goddammit, goddamn, good grief, gorblimey, goshdarn, goshdarnit, grain, grant, graphical user interface, grease, grieve, grieven, halfpennyworth, hammer, hang it all, harry, heave, heck, hell, hell's bells, hell's bloody bells, hell's bloody bells and damnation, hield, hint, hit, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, impact, inch, inducement, instrument panel, iota, ish, jazz, jerk, jot, kick, knock, knock off, kopi money, launch, lay waste, lay waste to, leave, level, lick, liquidate, lob, lunge, make away with, make tracks, mite, moan, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mortify, mote, move on, namous, neutralize, nuke, nuts, obliterate, off, ooch, oppress, ounce, part, particle, pat, patter, pay off, pay-off, payola, peck, peg, pelt, pennyworth, phooey, pick, pick off, piece, pinch, pink, piss, piss off, pitch, poke, polish off, pollute, poo, pop off, pound, powder, precipitate, present, project, pull down, pull up stakes, pulverize, pummel, punch, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out, put six feet under, put someone out of their misery, put to sleep, quit, quoit, raasclaat, race, rap, rats, ravage, raze, remove, rub out, rue, ruin, run along, rush, sadden, sadden up, scantling, scatter, scent, scintilla, scooch, scotch, scrap, scruple, scupper, scuttle, semblance, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, set forth, set off, set out, shit, shred, shucks, shy, skerrick, skew, skoosh, skosh, slam, slap, slaughter, slay, slight, sling, sling one's hook, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smite, smithereen, snuff, son of a bitch, son of a gun, sophisticate, soupçon, sparge, spark, spatter, speck, speckle, split, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, spurt, squash, stamp out, start, start out, stiff, stop someone's clock, strain, strew, strike, subornation, sugar, surge, swap, sweetener, tad, take, take care of, take down, take leave, take off, take one's leave, take out, take wing, tap, tea money, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, thrash, thrill, throw, thrust, thump, thwack, tidbit, tidge, tithing, tittle, toddick, top, top off, torpedo, toss, total, touch, trace, traject, trifle, tristitiate, tuppence worth, unbreed, unexist, ungladden, unhappy, unmake, uproot, upset, vapulate, vim, vitality, warp, waste, wax, wet, whack, whang, whiff, whip, whit, whop, wing, wipe off, wipe out, wreck, yerk

Related Words

Canada), apostrophe, brace, bracket, colon, comma, curly brackets, ellipsis, exclamation mark, fraction slash, full stop, guillemet, hyphen, interpunct, interrobang, minus sign, parentheses (US, period, question mark, quotation marks, semicolon, slash, space, square bracket, stroke

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