dash

Nouns

  • (n) distinctive and stylish elegance
    • he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer
    panache, elan, flair, style,
  • (n) a quick run sprint,
  • (n) a footrace run at top speed
    • he is preparing for the 100-yard dash
  • (n) 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,
  • (n) the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code dah,
  • (n) the act of moving with great haste
    • he made a dash for the door
    bolt,

Verbs

  • (v) run or move very quickly or hastily
    • She dashed into the yard
    scoot, scud, dart, flash, shoot,
  • (v) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
    • Smash a plate
    smash,
  • (v) hurl or thrust violently
    • He dashed the plate against the wall
    • Waves were dashing against the rock
    crash,
  • (v) destroy or break
    • dashed ambitions and hopes
  • (v) cause to lose courage
    • dashed by the refusal
    daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare away, scare off, pall, scare,
  • (v) add an enlivening or altering element to
    • blue paint dashed with white

Synonyms

scoot scud dart flash shoot panache elan flair style sprint smash crash hyphen daunt frighten away frighten off scare away scare off pall scare dah bolt

See also

cut back flash back

Words of close approximity

dab dad dag dah dak dal dam das DAT daw Day
Daba dace dada dado daft dago dahl Dail dais dale Dali dalo Dama dame damn damp Dana Dane dank Danu Dard dare Dari dark darn dart data date daub Davy dawn days daze
dashboard dash down dashed dasheen Dashiell Hammett dashiki dashing dashing hopes dashingly dash off dash-pot Dasht-e-Kavir Dasht-e-Lut