1. to strike or smash violently, especially so as to break to pieces: He dashed the plate into smithereens against the wall.
2. to throw or thrust violently or suddenly: to dash one stone against another.
3. to splash, often violently; bespatter (with water, mud, etc.): He recovered consciousness when they dashed water in his face.
4. to apply roughly, as by splashing: to dash paint here and there on the wall.
5. to mix or adulterate by adding another substance: to dash wine with water.
6. to ruin or frustrate (hopes, plans, etc.): The rain dashed our hopes for a picnic.
7. to depress; dispirit: The failure dashed his spirits.
8. to confound or abash: His rejection dashed and humiliated him.

9. to strike with violence: The waves dashed against the cliff.
10. to move with violence; rush: The horses dashed out of the burning stable.

11. a small quantity of anything thrown into or mixed with something else: a dash of salt.
12. a hasty or sudden movement; a rush or sudden onset: They all made a dash for the door.
13. the mark or sign (—) used to note an abrupt break or pause in a sentence or hesitation in an utterance, to begin and end a parenthetic word, phrase, or clause, to indicate the omission of letters or words, to divide a line, to substitute for certain uses of the colon, and to separate any of various elements of a sentence or series of sentences, as a question from its answer.
14. the throwing or splashing of liquid against something: the dash of the waves against the dock.
15. the sound of such splashing: The dash of the waves on the beach could be heard from afar.
16. spirited action; vigor in action or style; élan: The dancer performed with spirit and dash.
17. a short race: a 100-yard dash.
18. dashboard.
19. a signal of longer duration than a dot, used in groups of dots, dashes, and spaces to represent letters, as in Morse code.
20. a hasty stroke, especially of a pen.
21. a violent and rapid blow or stroke.

22. dash off,
• to hurry away; leave: I must dash off now.
• to write, make, accomplish, etc., hastily: We dashed off a letter to announce the news. He dashed down a memo.

23. to make a striking impression; be ostentatious or showy.

1. to damn (usually used as an interjection).

1. a tip, bribe, or recompense.
2. bribery.

3. to give a tip or bribe to (especially a government employee).

1. to hurl; crash
2. to mix
3. to move hastily or recklessly; rush
4. to write (down) or finish (off) hastily
5. to destroy; frustrate
6. to daunt (someone); cast down; discourage

7. a sudden quick movement; dart
8. a small admixture
9. a violent stroke or blow
10. the sound of splashing or smashing
11. panache; style
12. cut a dash See cut (def. 33)
13. the punctuation mark —, used singly in place of a colon, esp to indicate a sudden change of subject or grammatical anacoluthon, or in pairs to enclose a parenthetical remark
14. the symbol (–) used, in combination with the symbol dot (·), in the written representation of Morse and other telegraphic codes
15. athletics another word (esp US and Canadian) for sprint
16. informal short for dashboard

1. informal a euphemistic word for damn (def. 1), damn (def. 2)

1. a gift, commission, tip, or bribe

2. to give (a dash) to someone

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