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Dash v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dashed p. pr. & vb. n. Dashing.]
1. To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. --Bacon.
2. To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.
Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. --Ps. ii. 9.
A brave vessel, . . .
Dashed all to pieces. --Shak.
To perplex and dash
Maturest counsels. --Milton.
3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.
Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car. --Pope.
4. To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.
I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications. --Addison.
The very source and fount of day
Is dashed with wandering isles of night. --Tennyson.
5. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.
6. To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.
Dash·ing, a. Bold; spirited; showy.
The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. --T. Campbell.
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dashing
adj 1: lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: gallant]
2: marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young
man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, jaunty, natty,
raffish, rakish, smart, spiffy, snappy, spruce]