• noun:   a quick run
• noun:   the act of moving with great haste

  Example: "He made a dash for the door"

• noun:   distinctive and stylish elegance

  Example: "He wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"

• noun:   the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
• noun:   a footrace run at top speed

  Example: "He is preparing for the 100-yard dash"

• noun:   a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
• verb:   destroy or break

  Example: "Dashed ambitions and hopes"

• verb:   add an enlivening or altering element to

  Example: "Blue paint dashed with white"

• verb:   run or move very quickly or hastily

  Example: "She dashed into the yard"

• verb:   break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
• verb:   hurl or thrust violently

  Example: "He dashed the plate against the wall"

• verb:   cause to lose courage

  Example: "Dashed by the refusal"

• name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #7683)

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