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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



... are mad." She stared at him in utter fear. She made a dash for the door. He prevented her. She fell back and looked to the window. He took her by the arm and twisted her into a chair. He had seen hysteria quelled by severity. He stood over her and spoke with all the sternness of his ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... war-horse, they gulp down the ground To battle! What care they how foes surround? Oh, joy to Celts, nigh half the true and bold! There, with the roar of all their wrongs uprolled From ancient depths, they dash with billow-bound Up rock and summit, and through cave and mound, Spurning both ...
— Freedom, Truth and Beauty • Edward Doyle
... "he was modest, humble, shrinking." The members of his congregation, recognizing that he had "the gift of utterance" asked him to speak "a word of exhortation" to them. The request scared him. The most truly gifted are usually the least conscious of their gifts. At first it did much "dash and abash his spirit." But after earnest entreaty he gave way, and made one or two trials of his gift in private meetings, "though with much weakness and infirmity." The result proved the correctness of his brethren's ...
— The Life of John Bunyan • Edmund Venables
... rapid, broken chords and the improvised runs characteristic of Hungarian Gypsy music; and they also prepare the player and listener for the rapid movement into which the slow melody passes over, finally to dash into the very frenzy ...
— The Pianolist - A Guide for Pianola Players • Gustav Kobb
... and therefore of the others—was just able to seize Hank violently by the arm as he tried to dash headlong ...
— The Wendigo • Algernon Blackwood


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