'Dashed' definitions:
Definition of 'dashed'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having gaps or spaces; "sign on the dotted line" [syn: dashed, dotted]
Definition of 'Dashed'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'dashed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute,
- baffled,
- balked,
- betrayed,
- bilked,
- blamed,
- blankety-blank,
- blasted,
- blessed,
- blighted,
- bowed-down,
- cast down,
- chapfallen,
- confounded,
- crestfallen,
- crossed,
- crushed,
- cursed,
- cussed,
- dadburned,
- damnable,
- danged,
- darned,
- defeated,
- dejected,
- demoralized,
- depressed,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- deuced,
- disappointed,
- discouraged,
- disheartened,
- dished,
- disillusioned,
- dispirited,
- dissatisfied,
- doggone,
- doggoned,
- down,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- downright,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- feeling low,
- foiled,
- frustrated,
- goldanged,
- goldarned,
- goshdarn,
- gross,
- heartless,
- hypochondriac,
- hypochondriacal,
- ill done-by,
- ill-served,
- in low spirits,
- in the depths,
- in the doldrums,
- in the dumps,
- infernal,
- languishing,
- let down,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- neurasthenic,
- out of countenance,
- outright,
- overcome,
- pessimistic,
- pining,
- prostrate,
- prostrated,
- reduced to jelly,
- regretful,
- ruddy,
- shaken,
- shot,
- shot to pieces,
- sorely disappointed,
- soured,
- spiritless,
- stricken,
- subdued,
- suicidal,
- thwarted,
- undone,
- unglued,
- unmanned,
- unmitigated,
- unnerved,
- unstrung,
- upset,
- weary of life,
- woebegone,
- world-weary