What is the meaning of dashing?

verb

• Run or move very quickly or hastily.
  • usage: "She dashed into the yard"
  • synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot
• Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over.
  • usage: "Smash a plate"
  • synonyms: smash, dash
• Hurl or thrust violently.
  • usage: "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"
  • synonyms: crash, dash
• 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

• Lively and spirited.
  • usage: "a dashing hero"
  • synonyms: gallant
• Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners.
  • usage: "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
  • synonyms: dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce