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dashing
(encz) | dashing,čárkování n: Zdeněk Brož |
dashing
(encz) | dashing,pelášení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Dashing
(gcide) | Dash \Dash\ (d[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dashed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Dashing.] [Of. Scand. origin; cf. Dan daske to beat,
strike, Sw. & Icel. daska, Dan. & Sw. dask blow.]
1. To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike
violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of
the water, it maketh a sound. --Bacon.
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2. To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to
crust; to frustrate; to ruin.
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Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel. --Ps. ii. 9.
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A brave vessel, . . .
Dashed all to pieces. --Shak.
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To perplex and dash
Maturest counsels. --Milton.
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3. To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to
depress. --South.
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Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car. --Pope.
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4. 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.
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I take care to dash the character with such
particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured
applications. --Addison.
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The very source and fount of day
Is dashed with wandering isles of night. --Tennyson.
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5. To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute
rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash
off a review or sermon.
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6. To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with
out; as, to dash out a word.
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Dashing
(gcide) | Dashing \Dash"ing\, a.
Bold; spirited; showy.
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The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the
listless. --T. Campbell.
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dashing
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adj 1: lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: dashing,
gallant]
2: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper
young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing,
jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy,
spruce] |
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dashing
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dashing hopes
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dashingly
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Bedashing
(gcide) | Bedash \Be*dash"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedashed (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Bedashing.]
To wet by dashing or throwing water or other liquid upon; to
bespatter. "Trees bedashed with rain." --Shak.
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Dashingly
(gcide) | Dashingly \Dash"ing*ly\, adv.
Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.]
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A dashingly dressed gentleman. --Hawthorne.
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Interdashing
(gcide) | Interdash \In`ter*dash"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interdashed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Interdashing.]
To dash between or among; to intersperse. --Cowper.
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dashing
(wn) | dashing
adj 1: lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: dashing,
gallant]
2: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper
young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing,
jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy,
spruce] |
dashing hopes
(wn) | dashing hopes
n 1: an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone [syn:
disappointment, dashing hopes] |
dashingly
(wn) | dashingly
adv 1: in a highly fashionable manner; "he was dashingly
handsome" |
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