Definitions for dashing

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dashing dash·ing

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IPA: /ˈdæʃ ɪŋ/

Dashing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in dashing (adghins).

Definitions for dashing

noun

1. a small quantity of anything thrown into or mixed with something else:
2. a hasty or sudden movement; a rush or sudden onset:
3. the mark or sign (—) used to note an abrupt break or pause in a sentence or hesitation in an utterance, to begin and end a parenthetic word, phrase, or clause, to indicate the omission of letters or words, to divide a line, to substitute for certain uses of the colon, and to separate any of various elements of a sentence or series of sentences, as a question from its answer.
4. the throwing or splashing of liquid against something:
5. the sound of such splashing:
6. spirited action; élan; vigor in action or style:
7. Track. a short race:
8. dashboard (def 1).
9. Telegraphy. a signal of longer duration than a dot, used in groups of dots, dashes, and spaces to represent letters, as in Morse code.
10. a hasty stroke, especially of a pen.
11. Archaic. a violent and rapid blow or stroke.
12. a tip, bribe, or recompense.
13. bribery.

Idioms

1. cut a dash, to make a striking impression; be ostentatious or showy.

adjective

1. energetic and spirited; lively:
2. elegant and gallant in appearance and manner:
3. showy; stylish.

Verb phrases

1. dash off, to hurry away; leave: Also, dash down. to write, make, accomplish, etc., hastily:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike or smash violently, especially so as to break to pieces:
2. to throw or thrust violently or suddenly:
3. to splash, often violently; bespatter (with water, mud, etc.):
4. to apply roughly, as by splashing:
5. to mix or adulterate by adding another substance:
6. to ruin or frustrate (hopes, plans, etc.):
7. to depress; dispirit:
8. to confound or abash:
9. to damn (usually used as an interjection).
10. to give a tip or bribe to (especially a government employee).

verb (used without object)

1. to strike with violence:
2. to move with violence; rush:

Origin of dashing

First recorded in 1800-05; dash¹ + -ing²

Examples for dashing

Nothing was before him, save the foaming, dashing, measureless ocean.

A generation later, a dashing French socialist named Etienne Cabet founded the Icarian Nation in Illinois.

"You'd frighten them away, if you did," said Mrs. Jenkins, dashing some water into the teapot.

After all, reading would be pretty boring if romance novels got all the dashing rogues.

dashing his one-eyed glasses on the table, he attacked the man.

So presenter Orlando Bloom, ever the dashing gent, held her up to the mic while she delivered her thank-yous.

They talked of books, of music—Christine played well in a dashing way.

He is, by all accounts, brilliant; a dashing, urbane go-getter who exudes charm.

This dashing young Barnacle, in a word, was likely to become a statesman, and to make a figure.

Leaked emails show Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman Amy Pascal confessing that the dashing Elba should be 007.