Definition of Dash

Verb: dash  dash

1. Run or move very quickly or hastily
   "She dashed into the yard";
   - dart, scoot, scud, flash, shoot, whip
    
2. Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
   "dash a plate";
   - smash
    
3. Hurl or thrust violently
   "Waves were dashing against the rock"; "He dashed the plate against the wall";
   - crash
    
4. Destroy or break
   "dashed ambitions and hopes"
    
5. Cause to lose courage
   "dashed by the refusal";
   - daunt, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
    
6. Add an enlivening or altering element to
   "blue paint dashed with white"

Noun: dash  dash

1. Distinctive and stylish elegance
   "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer";
   - elan, flair, panache, style, élan
    
2. A quick run
   - sprint
    
3. A footrace run at top speed
   "he is preparing for the 100-yard dash"
    
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
   - hyphen
    
5. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
   - dah
    
6. The act of moving with great haste
   "he made a dash for the door";
   - bolt
    
7. [Brit] Instrument panel on an automobile or aeroplane containing dials and controls
   - dashboard, fascia [Brit]
    
8. A small quantity of a liquid, esp. when being added to something else
   "add a dash of brandy"

Interjection: dash  dash
Usage: Brit

1. Exclamation of annoyance
   - blast, bother [Brit], botheration, bummer, curses, dang [N. Amer], damn, damnation, dammit, damn it, darn, durn [US, dialect], drat, hang, tarnation [N. Amer]

See also:
Dasara
dashboard

Anagrams containing the word dash

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