Crossword clues for dashing
dashing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Dashing \Dash"ing\, a. Bold; spirited; showy.
The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the
listless.
--T. Campbell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1801, "given to cutting a dash" (1786), which was a colloquial expression for "acting brilliantly," from dash (n.) in the sense of "showy appearance," which is attested from 1715. The sense of "splashing" is recorded from mid-15c.
Wiktionary
1 spirited, audacious and full of high spirits. 2 chic, fashionable. n. The action of the verb to dash. v
(present participle of dash English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "dashing".
And saw a stream of animals, hoofed, padded, clawed and dashing, splashing through the ponds for Various Aquatic Birds, setting the night aflight - all of them making for the rear gate that opened to the Tiroler Garten.
They raced around the yard, with the armadillo freezing and then dashing off in another direction, with Sweetie hot on its trail.
Instead of offering fight, he turned and scurried after the Salamanders, who had formed a two-man file, still dashing clumsily, handicapped in their asbestos suits.
Minirodents, ludicrously befoamed, were dashing in all directions, many without jockeys.
Dashing around like a hoyden, instead of behaving like a proper woman.
The burly Lucas Meyer, smart young Smuts fresh from the siege of Ookiep, Beyers from the north, Kemp the dashing cavalry leader, Muller the hero of many fights--all these with many others of their sun-blackened, gaunt, hard-featured comrades were grouped within the great tent of Vereeniging.
Over this amazing garment he wore a dashing coat in coquelicot brocade, and crowned his sartorial confection with a curly-brimmed beaver brushed to glistening perfection.
It was pretty country, even in the downpour, when white mists parted and fir-crowned heights looked out for a moment, or we slid down into a deep glen with mossy boulders, lichen-covered stumps, ferny carpet, and damp, balsamy smell of pyramidal cryptomeria, and a tawny torrent dashing through it in gusts of passion.
The man in his dashing Glengarry cap and his somewhat shabby gray suit took on one arm the plain, jolly woman who seemed to be his wife, and on the other, the amiable, handsome young girl who looked enough like him to be his sister, and strode rapidly back and forth, saying that they must get up an appetite for breakfast.
The gymkhana had already begun, and horses were dashing about all over the place.
He was no longer the dashing forty-something British playboy Holden knew ten years ago.
Violent in action as well as temper, Jarrock was dashing full tilt for the door, when he stopped as though a trip hammer had jolted him.
The Russian officer was dressed in a red silk kaftan and looked quite dashing.
Then Selbert was dashing for the corner with Mance behind him, but all the while, the rugged Hydra Head was shooting back, hoping to nail The Shadow in the doorway.
Whenever Keill thought about her, the picture that came to his mind was exactly what was happening now - Oni dashing ahead towards some new excitement, Keill following behind, usually with a wry smile.