verb
- Run or move very quickly or hastily.
- usage: "She dashed into the yard"
- Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over.
- usage: "Smash a plate"
- Hurl or thrust violently.
- usage: "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"
- Destroy or break.
- usage: "dashed ambitions and hopes"
- synonyms: dash
- Cause to lose courage.
- usage: "dashed by the refusal"
- synonyms: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
- Add an enlivening or altering element to.
- usage: "blue paint dashed with white"
- synonyms: dash
adjective
- Having gaps or spaces.
- usage: "sign on the dotted line"
- synonyms: dotted
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