Definition of Dashing
Adjective: dashing dash-ing
- Lively and spirited
"a dashing hero";
- gallant
- Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
"a dashing young man";
- dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce, pert
- Run or move very quickly or hastily
"She dashed into the yard";
- dart, scoot, scud, flash, shoot, whip
- Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
"dash a plate";
- smash
- Hurl or thrust violently
"Waves were dashing against the rock"; "He dashed the plate against the wall";
- crash
- Destroy or break
"dashed ambitions and hopes"
- Cause to lose courage
"dashed by the refusal";
- daunt, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
- Add an enlivening or altering element to
"blue paint dashed with white"
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