Word Finder - dashed

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To run quickly or for a short distance.

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He dashed across the field.

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To leave or depart.

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I have to dash now. See you soon.

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To destroy by striking (against).

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He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.

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To throw violently.

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The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.

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(sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.

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To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.

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to dash wine with water

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(of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.

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Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.

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To dishearten; to sadden.

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To complete hastily, usually with down or off.

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He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework

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To draw quickly; jot.

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(of a line) Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

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Damned.

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It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.

She dashed out the door and jumped into the car.

Megan dashed around her desk.

She dashed off to her room to retrieve it.

She dashed around, pausing to gape at the storm as she closed each window securely against its fury.

No one knows how he escaped being dashed to pieces.

He cupped his hand and dashed water into her face.

He jumped out of the car and dashed up the steps to the house.

The phone rang twice and Randy tripped as he dashed across the room to answer.

He dashed forward and grabbed Lisa's arm on the other side.

His reception by the king was flattering enough; but his hopes of preferment were dashed by the opposition of the Anglican clergy to the promotion of a papist.

In a flood of tears and half-controlled sobs she got to her feet, and handkerchief to her face, dashed across the room toward the entrance.

The Jacobin Club was closed, thanks to the ability of Fouche, the new minister of Police; but the hopes of Sieyes were dashed by the death of General Joubert, commander of the Army of Italy, at the disastrous battle of Novi (15th of August).

Any hope he'd had of finding something—anything!—to use as a weapon was dashed as he looked around the sparsely decorated room.

Snatching some clothes, she dashed off to the bathroom.

With the melting of the ice the more daring spirits dashed into the new current with such ardour that for them all traditions, all institutions, were thrown into hotchpot; even elderly and sober physicians took enough of the infection to liberate their minds, and, in the field of the several diseases and in that of post-mortem pathology, the hollowness of classification by superficial resemblance, the transitoriness of forms, and the flow of processes, broke upon the view.

But his most remarkable publication at this time was The True-Born Englishman (1701), a satire in rough but extremely vigorous verse on the national objection to William as a foreigner, and on the claim of purity of blood for a nation which Defoe chooses to represent as crossed and dashed with all the strains and races in Europe.

When water is dashed against the body with more or less violence, its effects are more powerful.

First he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now with his right hand, then falling on one knee he twirled her round him, and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath, and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected steps.

In another moment Rostov's horse dashed its breast against the hindquarters of the officer's horse, almost knocking it over, and at the same instant Rostov, without knowing why, raised his saber and struck the Frenchman with it.

Keep him! shouted different people and the people dashed in pursuit of the trap.

Without looking back, she dashed to the house, past a startled Sarah, and then to her room.

It took fifty minutes before the door burst open and Howie dashed out and up the stairs with Martha close on his heels.

Pain shot up Dean's arm, hot and sharp, but he had no time to think about it as the man's partner jumped from the bar and dashed toward him.

Hurrying up the stairs, she dashed through the dining room and grabbed the receiver.

Her hopes were dashed.

The formation of the coalition and the outbreak of war for a while raised his hopes, in spite of his lively distrust of the competence of Austrian ministers; but the hopes were speedily dashed by Austerlitz and its results.

The first gate, that of Anu, was successfully reached; but in ascending still farther to the gate of Ishtar the strength of the eagle gave way, and Etanna was dashed to the ground.

The flowers of the horsechestnut, which are white dashed with red and yellow, appear in May, and sometimes, but quite exceptionally, again in autumn; they form a handsome erect panicle, but comparatively few of them afford mature fruit.

Rostov, picking out one on a gray horse, dashed after him.

He darted and dashed, stopped and sprinted at its commands, focused on navigating the dangerous territory.

But the peace of 1810 and the fall of Stadion once more dashed his hopes, and, disillusioned and "hellishly blasé," he once more retired to comparative inactivity at Prague.

By means of lighted candles violently dashed to the ground and extinguished the faithful were graphically taught the meaning of the greater excommunication - though in a somewhat misleading way, for it is a fundamental principle of the canon law that disciplina est excommunicatio, non eradicatio.

The French cavalry on the right, hearing troops in motion on the Namur road, dashed in pursuit down the turnpike road shortly after dawn, caught up the fugitives and captured them.

For the heart of a dancer, inspirational dance quotes can strengthen a weary spirit and refresh dreams that are often dashed by failed auditions and side lining injuries.

The motion of the foot is indicated by either a solid or a dashed line - the solid indicating the foot that moves first, the dash indicating the secondary motion of the following foot.

Dashed and dotted lines indicate mountain folds.

From there the horse dashed in and out of the poles and came to a stop on his haunches.

All her dreams had been dashed - all but one.

The bear dropped down on all fours and growled at her offspring, who dashed back into the trees.

The end of the Constituent Assembly he heard of with joy and with bright hopes for the future, soon dashed by the behaviour of the Legislative Assembly.

The kakapo is about the size of a raven, of a green or brownishgreen colour, thickly freckled and irregularly barred with dark brown, and dashed here and there with longitudinal stripes .of light yellow.

Two coastal motor boats, CMB24 and 30, dashed ahead and torpedoed the piers.

He desired to invade Africa, which on account of its corn crops was now the key of the position; but his ships were dashed to pieces by a storm in which many of his soldiers perished.

The rebellion of 1798 and the union had dashed the hopes of the Catholic leaders, and their prospects of success seemed very remote when, in the first years of the 19th century, the still unknown lawyer took up their cause.

Qat's great enemy, Qasavara, was dashed against the hard sky, and was turned into stone, like the foes of Perseus.

John appears to have expected that this alliance would restore him to his kingdom, but his hopes were dashed to the ground when Frederick himself assumed the title of king of Jerusalem.

Pietro Della Vigna, accused of treasonable designs, was disgraced; and the once all-powerful favourite and minister, blinded now and in rags, was dragged in the emperor's train, as a warning to traitors, till in despair he dashed out his brains.

Any hope he'd had of finding something—anything!—to use as a weapon was dashed as he looked around the sparsely decorated room.

One of the kittens dashed toward Kiera, moving sideways like a spider on its flexible legs, and she skittered farther away.

One morning, as he was about to drove some bullocks to Tavistock market, his wife dashed out into the yard.