Crossword clues for flashed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flash \Flash\ (fl[a^]sh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flashed (fl[a^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Flashing.] [Cf. OE. flaskien, vlaskien to pour, sprinkle, dial. Sw. flasa to blaze, E. flush, flare.]
To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
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To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.
Names which have flashed and thundered as the watch words of unnumbered struggles.
--Talfourd.The object is made to flash upon the eye of the mind.
--M. Arnold.A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act.
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To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.
Every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other.
--Shak.flash in the pan, a failure or a poor performance, especially after a normal or auspicious start; also, a person whose initial performance appears augur success but who fails to achieve anything notable. From 4th pan, n., sense 3 -- part of a flintlock. Occasionally, the powder in the pan of a flintlock would flash without conveying the fire to the charge, and the ball would fail to be discharged. Thus, a good or even spectacular beginning that eventually achieves little came to be called a flash in the pan.
To flash in the pan, to fail of success, especially after a normal or auspicious start. [Colloq.] See under Flash, a burst of light.
--Bartlett.Syn: Flash, Glitter, Gleam, Glisten, Glister.
Usage: Flash differs from glitter and gleam, denoting a flood or wide extent of light. The latter words may express the issuing of light from a small object, or from a pencil of rays. Flash differs from other words, also, in denoting suddenness of appearance and disappearance. Flashing differs from exploding or disploding in not being accompanied with a loud report. To glisten, or glister, is to shine with a soft and fitful luster, as eyes suffused with tears, or flowers wet with dew.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: flash)
Usage examples of "flashed".
Overhead flashed by the Sweep, the Dustman, and the Laugher, bound for distant ports, perhaps as far as England.
Cornhill and Lombard Street flashed back upon him for a second, then dived away and hid their faces for ever, as he passed the low grey wall beside the church where first he had seen the lame boy hobbling, and had realised that the whole world suffered.
The idea flashed into him probably because it contained mountains, caves, and children.
Their rags and filthy slouched hats flashed radiant as they went, all bathed and cleaned in glory.
Signals he tried vainly to intercept flashed between the pair of them.
Light flashed and corruscated through it, passing from the children and their leader along the tiny pipes of sympathy the Gardener had cleared of rubbish and decay.
They flashed about the attic chamber, tipping everything with light, from the bundle of clothes that strewed the floor to the confused interior of the black basket-trunk where she kept her money and papers.
Out flashed this blazing truth: kind acts must be instinctive, natural, thoughtless.
The lake, like a huge reflector, flashed its light up into the heavens.
Something, long put aside and buried under a burden of exaggerated care, flashed deliciously between them.
Train after train, each with its full complement of passengers, flashed forth across that summer sky, till the people in the Observatories must have thought they had miscalculated strangely and the Earth was passing amid the showering Leonids before her appointed time.
Or was it, perhaps, a Thought from some fair, exquisite heart that had been wakened by the rushing of the Expresses, and had flashed in to take a place in the wonderful story Daddy wove?
As the high harmonic crowns the end of a long cadenza on a violin, fulfilling bars of difficult effort, this point of exquisite beauty flashed life into the Pattern of the story, consummating the labour of construction with the true, inevitable climax.
A stream of light flashed past her, dashing like a meteor towards the village and disappearing before she could see the figure.
Something that he ought to have known, ought to have remembered, flashed mockingly before him and was gone.