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Adjective dashing has 2 senses
- dashing, gallant - lively and spirited; "a dashing hero"
Antonym: spiritless (indirect, via spirited)
- dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, smart, spiffy, snappy, spruce - marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
Antonyms: unfashionable, unstylish (indirect, via fashionable)
Verb dash has 6 senses
- dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot - run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
--1 is one way to rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- smash, dash - break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over; "Smash a plate"
--2 is one way to break
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- crash, dash - hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock"
--3 is one way to hurl, hurtle, cast
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- dash - destroy or break; "dashed ambitions and hopes"
--4 is one way to thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare - cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal"
--5 is one way to intimidate, restrain
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
- dash - add an enlivening or altering element to; "blue paint dashed with white"
--6 is one way to mix, mix in
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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