dasht

Verb

dash (third-person singular simple present dashes, present participle dashing, simple past and past participle dashed)

1. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
   • He dashed across the field.

   Synonyms:

   bolt, rush, sprint

2. (informal, intransitive) To leave or depart.
   • I have to dash now. See you soon.

   Synonyms:

   go, take off, 23 skidoo, beat it, bug off, remove, egress, bugger off, book, bounce

3. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
   • He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.

   Synonyms:

   beat, whack, bang, baste, batter, belabor, blow, boom-boom, buffet, butt

4. (transitive) To throw violently.
   • The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.

   Synonyms:

   chuck, feck, fling, sling, bung, cast, chunk, cook, dump, jerk

5. (ambitransitive, figuratively, sometimes) To sprinkle; to splatter.
   • On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   dust, powder, sparge, scatter, speckle, strew

6. (dated, transitive) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
   • to dash wine with water

   Synonyms:

   adulter, corrupt, debase, pollute, sophisticate, abase, adulterate, adulterize, alloy, balderdash

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