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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dash \Dash\, 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.] 1. 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. --Bacon. 2. 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. --Milton. 3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. --South. Dash the proud games?er in his gilded car --Pope. 4. 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. 5. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off as to dash off a review or sermon. 6. To erase by a stroke; to strike out knock out -- with out as to dash out a word From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dashed adj : having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line" [syn: {dotted}]
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