dash
dash is a 4-letter English word with 29 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
- transitive verb. To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.
- transitive verb. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.
- transitive verb. To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.
- intransitive verb. To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.
- noun. Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.
- noun. A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.
- noun. A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.
- noun. A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.
- noun. Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.
- noun. A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.
- noun. A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.
- noun. The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.
- noun. The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.
- noun. A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.
- noun. a quick run
- noun. the act of moving with great haste
"he made a dash for the door"
- noun. distinctive and stylish elegance
"he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
- noun. the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- noun. a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
- noun. a footrace run at top speed
"he is preparing for the 100-yard dash"
- verb. add an enlivening or altering element to
"blue paint dashed with white"
- verb. break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
"Smash a plate"
- verb. hurl or thrust violently
"He dashed the plate against the wall"
"Waves were dashing against the rock"
- verb. cause to lose courage
"dashed by the refusal"
- verb. run or move very quickly or hastily
"She dashed into the yard"
- verb. destroy or break
"dashed ambitions and hopes"
Synonyms
sprint, bolt, elan, flair, panache, style, dah, hyphen, smash, crash, daunt, pall, scare, dart, flash, scoot, scud, shoot
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dash:
Common word forms
dashed, dasher, dashes, dashing
Words from these letters
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