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Adjective: dashed  dasht
  1. Having gaps or spaces
    "sign on the dashed line"
    - dotted
Verb: dash  dash
  1. Run or move very quickly or hastily
    "She dashed into the yard"
    - dart, scoot, scud, flash, shoot, whip
     
  2. Break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
    "dash a plate"
    - smash
     
  3. Hurl or thrust violently
    "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"
    - crash
     
  4. Destroy or break
    "dashed ambitions and hopes"
     
  5. Cause to lose courage
    "dashed by the refusal"
    - daunt, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare
     
  6. Add an enlivening or altering element to
    "blue paint dashed with white"

See also: broken

Type of: baffle, belt along, bilk, break, bucket along, cannonball along, cast, cross, foil, frustrate, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurl, hurry, hurtle, intimidate, mix, mix in, pelt along, queer, race, restrain, rush, rush along, scotch, speed, spoil, step on it, thwart, travel rapidly, zip

Encyclopedia: Dash Dash, Kankuro