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1. Lively and spirited
   "a dashing hero";
   - gallant
    
2. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
   "a dashing young man";
   - dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce, pert

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
   "Waves were dashing against the rock"; "He dashed the plate against the wall";
   - 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: fashionable, happening, spirited, stylish

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: Dashing