dash
verb/dæʃ/
/dæʃ/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they dash | /dæʃ/ /dæʃ/ |
| he / she / it dashes | /ˈdæʃɪz/ /ˈdæʃɪz/ |
| past simple dashed | /dæʃt/ /dæʃt/ |
| past participle dashed | /dæʃt/ /dæʃt/ |
| -ing form dashing | /ˈdæʃɪŋ/ /ˈdæʃɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to go somewhere very quickly synonym rush
- I must dash (= leave quickly), I'm late.
- + adv./prep. She dashed off to keep an appointment.
- I dashed along the platform and jumped on the train.
- He dashed frantically across the road.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- frantically
- about
- around
- …
- have to
- must
- across
- along
- down
- …
- [transitive, intransitive] to throw something, push somebody or make something fall violently onto a hard surface; to beat against a surface
- something/somebody + adv./prep. The boat was dashed repeatedly against the rocks.
- He dashed her aside.
- She dashed the bottle to the ground.
- + adv./prep. The waves were dashing against the harbour wall.
go quickly
throw/beat
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘strike forcibly against’): probably symbolic of forceful movement and related to Swedish and Danish daska.
Idioms
See dash in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarydash (it)! | dash it all!
- (old-fashioned, British English) used to show that you are annoyed about something
dash somebody’s hopes
- to destroy somebody’s hopes by making what they were hoping for impossible
- Hopes of a peaceful settlement have been dashed.
- Her hopes were cruelly dashed when her parents refused to let her go.
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