dashed

Adjective
Synonyms: dotted

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. having gaps or spaces“sign on the dotted line”Synonyms: dotted
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Dash \Dash\ (d[a^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Dashing.] [Of. Scand. origin; cf. Dan daske to beat, strike, Sw. & Icel. daska, Dan. & Sw. dask blow.]

1.To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against. [1913 Webster]

If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

2.To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin. [1913 Webster]

Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.— Ps. ii. 9.[1913 Webster]
A brave vessel, . . . Dashed all to pieces.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
To perplex and dash Maturest counsels.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. --South. [1913 Webster]

Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

4.To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture. [1913 Webster]

I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.— Addison.[1913 Webster]
The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]

5.To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon. [1913 Webster]

6.To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word. [1913 Webster]

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