dashed off

verb (used with object)

to strike or smash violently, especially so as to break to pieces: He dashed the plate into smithereens against the wall.

to throw or thrust violently or suddenly: to dash one stone against another.

to splash, often violently; bespatter (with water, mud, etc.): He recovered consciousness when they dashed water in his face.

to apply roughly, as by splashing: to dash paint here and there on the wall.

to mix or adulterate by adding another substance: to dash wine with water.

to ruin or frustrate (hopes, plans, etc.): The rain dashed our hopes for a picnic.

to depress; dispirit: The failure dashed his spirits.

to confound or abash: His rejection dashed and humiliated him.

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verb (used without object)

to strike with violence: The waves dashed against the cliff.

10.

to move with violence; rush: The horses dashed out of the burning stable.

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noun

11.

a small quantity of anything thrown into or mixed with something else: a dash of salt.

12.

a hasty or sudden movement; a rush or sudden onset: They all made a dash for the door.

13.

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.

14.

the throwing or splashing of liquid against something: the dash of the waves against the dock.

15.

the sound of such splashing: The dash of the waves on the beach could be heard from afar.

16.

spirited action; élan; vigor in action or style: The dancer performed with spirit and dash.

17.

Track. a short race: a 100-yard dash.

18.

dashboard ( def 1 ).

19.

Telegraphy. a signal of longer duration than a dot, used in groups of dots, dashes, and spaces to represent letters, as in Morse code.

20.

a hasty stroke, especially of a pen.

21.

Archaic. a violent and rapid blow or stroke.

Verb phrases

22.

dash off,

to hurry away; leave: I must dash off now.

Also, dash down. to write, make, accomplish, etc., hastily: We dashed off a letter to announce the news. He dashed down a memo.

Idioms

23.

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

Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) Middle English dasshen, perhaps < Old Norse; compare Danish daske slap, flap, Swedish daska; (noun) Middle English: blow, clash, derivative of the v.

Synonyms
10. dart, bolt. See rush¹. 11. pinch, bit; touch.

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World English Dictionary

dash¹ (dæʃ)

—vb (usually foll by off or down)
1.	to hurl; crash: he dashed the cup to the floor; the waves dashed against the rocks
2.	to mix: white paint dashed with blue
3.	(intr) to move hastily or recklessly; rush: he dashed to her rescue
4.	to write (down) or finish (off) hastily
5.	to destroy; frustrate: his hopes were dashed
6.	to daunt (someone); cast down; discourage: he was dashed by her refusal

—n
7.	a sudden quick movement; dart
8.	a small admixture: coffee with a dash of cream
9.	a violent stroke or blow
10.	the sound of splashing or smashing: the dash of the waves
11.	panache; style: he rides with dash
12.	cut a dash See cut
13.	the punctuation mark —, used singly in place of a colon, esp to indicate a sudden change of subject or grammatical anacoluthon, or in pairs to enclose a parenthetical remark
14.	Compare dah the symbol (–) used, in combination with the symbol dot (·), in the written representation of Morse and other telegraphic codes
15.	athletics another word (esp US and Canadian) for sprint
16.	informal short for dashboard

[Middle English dasche, dasse]

dash² (dæʃ)

—*interj*
	informal damn a euphemistic word for damn

dash³ (dæʃ)

—n
1.	a gift, commission, tip, or bribe

—vb
2.	to give (a dash) to someone

[C16: perhaps from Fanti]

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Word Origin & History

dash

c.1300, probably from a Scandinavian source, somehow imitative. The oldest sense is that in dash to pieces and dashed hopes. Intrans. meaning "move quickly" appeared c.1300, that of "to write hurriedly" is 1726. Sporting sense of "race run in one heat" is from 1881.

American Heritage

Cultural Dictionary

dash definition

A punctuation mark (—) used to indicate a sudden break in thought, to set off parenthetical material, or to take the place of such expressions as that is and namely: “He's running for reelection — if he lives until then”; “Very few people in this class — three, to be exact — have completed their projects”; “She joined the chorus for only one reason — she loves to sing.” In the last example, where the parenthetical material comes at the end of the sentence rather than in the middle, a colon could be used instead of the dash.

American Heritage

Abbreviations & Acronyms

DASH
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension

Matching Quote

"On the thirty-first day of March, one hundred and forty-two years before this, probably about this time in the afternoon, there were hurriedly paddling down this part of the river, between the pine woods which then fringed these banks, two white women and a boy, who had left an island at the mouth of the Contoocook before daybreak. They were lightly clad for the season, in the English fashion, and handled their paddles unskillfully, but with nervous energy and determination, and at the bottom of their canoe lay the still bleeding scalps of ten of the aborigines. They were Hannah Dustan, and her nurse, Mary Neff,... and an English boy, named Samuel Lennardson, escaping from captivity among the Indians. On the 15th of March previous, Hannah Dustan had been compelled to rise from childbed, and half dressed, with one foot bare, accompanied by her nurse, commence an uncertain march, in still inclement weather, through the snow and the wilderness. She had seen her seven elder children flee with their father, but knew not of their fate. She had seen her infant's brains dashed out against an apple tree, and had left her own and her neighbors' dwellings in ashes. When she reached the wigwam of her captor, situated on an island in the Merrimack, more than twenty miles above where we now are, she had been told that she and her nurse were soon to be taken to a distant Indian settlement, and there made to run the gauntlet naked.... Having determined to attempt her escape, she instructed the boy to inquire of one of the men, how he should dispatch an enemy in the quickest manner, and take his scalp. "Strike 'em there," said he, placing his finger on his temple, and he also showed him how to take off the scalp. On the morning of the 31st she arose before daybreak, and awoke her nurse and the boy, and taking the Indians' tomahawks, they killed them all in their sleep, excepting one favorite boy, and one squaw who fled wounded with him to the woods. The English boy struck the Indian who had given him the information, on the temple, as he had been directed. They then collected all the provision they could find, and took their master's tomahawk and gun, and scuttling all the canoes but one, commenced their flight to Haverhill, distant about sixty miles by the river. But after having proceeded a short distance, fearing that her story would not be believed if she should escape to tell it, they returned to the silent wigwam, and taking off the scalps of the dead, put them into a bag as proofs of what they had done, and then, retracing their steps to the shore in the twilight, recommenced their voyage."

-Henry David Thoreau

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