Definitions for dashed

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dashed dashed

Spelling: [dasht]

IPA: /dæʃt/

Dashed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in dashed (addehs).

Definitions for dashed

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. made up of dashes:

Verb phrases

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

adjective, adverb

1. (used as a euphemism) damned:

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 dashed

First recorded in 1640-50; dash¹ + -ed²

Examples for dashed

He dashed the paper to the ground, and gave himself up to his madness.

I think with that generation, so many of their hopes have been so dashed that nihilism is really a natural response.

Suddenly she sat up with a jerk, and dashed her hand across her eyes.

She saw the lighted window, flew to it, dashed it open, and entered.

In Louisville and Baltimore, the horse had dashed to the front of the field, setting the pace.

Johnson dashed into the base and called to his partner, 23-year-old Tantania Alexander.

He dashed the glass from him, and burst into tears which he did not even try to conceal.

Then a string of missteps, some self-inflicted by the White House, dashed any hope the House might act.

He would not look at it, and when I threw it close to him he dashed it away as if it was poison.

But, those hopes were to be dashed about five weeks into my college career.