Crossword clues for dashed
dashed
- Didn't dawdle
- Ruined, as dreams
- Ran like the wind
- Extinguished
- Like some races and hopes
- Crestfallen
- Sped
- Destroyed, as in hopes
- Made haste, frustrated?
- Crushed oddly drab outhouse
- Father grabbed the girl and ran
- The German conductor's fourth piece cut by Hallé, without everything getting spoilt
- That woman taken in by father, ruined
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dash \Dash\ (d[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dashing.] [Of. Scand. origin; cf. Dan daske to beat, strike, Sw. & Icel. daska, Dan. & Sw. dask blow.]
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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.
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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.
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To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.
--South.Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car.
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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. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.
To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.
Wiktionary
1 Of a line, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next. 2 (context British informal English) A euphemism for '''damned'''. v
(past participle of dash English)
WordNet
adj. having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line" [syn: dotted]
Wikipedia
DASHED is a US restaurant delivery service founded in Boston, Massachusetts by Phil Dumontet in 2009. The company provides rapid delivery for over 800 restaurants that don't have their own services in Baltimore, Boston, Hoboken, New Haven, Philadelphia, Providence and Washington, DC.
Usage examples of "dashed".
But in the upper-air currents, it would have been dangerous to drive at a pace slow enough to keep level with the automobile, and so the aeroplane soon dashed on ahead.
Dropping the ax, Alec dashed to the gate, heaved the heavy bar out of its brackets, and pushed the doors wide.
They dashed - except for a few who staggered - straight through the gate that led to the Argyle Museum!
Ravenclaw, Harry found himself walking down to dinner alone from the common room, Ron having rushed off into a nearby bathroom to throw up yet again, and Hermione having dashed off to see Professor Vector about a mistake she thought she might have made in her last Arithmancy essay.
A few days before the match against Ravenclaw, Harry found himself walking down to dinner alone from the common room, Ron having rushed off into a nearby bathroom to throw up yet again, and Hermione having dashed off to see Professor Vector about a mistake she thought she might have made in her last Arithmancy essay.
Then, to the amazement of the two on-lookers, he set the four axolotls on the plate, and they immediately began to dance about as if they were having a wonderful time of it They dashed this way and darted that way and made little axolotl footprints throughout, pausing now and again to lick their feet clean before prancing off again through the goop.
At last, seeing that all their horses except the incomparable Bayard had been slain, Renaud bade his brothers mount behind him, and they dashed away.
He dipped the baler into the fresh water he had brought with him for their daily supply, and dashed it on her forehead.
That was where his man had gone, and without paying any further attention to the irate shopkeeper, he dashed out through it with Bim at his heels.
A burst of dazzling sunshine struck the bridge so fiercely that Kyller lifted his hand to shield his eyes, but it was gone instantly as the Blucher dashed into another clammy cold bank of fog.
Stuart Buffin and his crony Miles, wild with joy at having carried the day, dashed for their bicycles.
Dashed caddish thing to do, but I thought a Marquis would put the wind up that crowd.
He rose, stretching his muscles gingerly, limped out through the hack door to the water barrel, and dashed a calabash of water over his head.
Overjoyed at this, I seized a calabash of water, and dashed its contents upon his face, then wiping away the blood, anxiously examined the wound.
Rupert and the twins, with Choc bustling behind them like a nursemaid, all petticoats and agitation, dashed through the legs of the company shouting.