Dashing can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| dashing - lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" | ||
| dashing - marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" | ||
Verb |
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| dash - add an enlivening or altering element to; "blue paint dashed with white" | ||
| dash - destroy or break; "dashed ambitions and hopes" | ||
| dash - run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" | ||
| dash - break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over; "Smash a plate" | ||
| dash - cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" | ||
| dash - hurl or thrust violently; "He dashed the plate against the wall"; "Waves were dashing against the rock" | ||
Noun |
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| dashing - The action of the verb to dash. |
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| 1. | adj. | A dashing hero. | |
| 2. | adj. | Now that you mention it, I remember he was a dashing man. I wonder how he's doing? | |
| 3. | adj. | Tom looked quite dashing. | |
| 4. | adj. | When I returned to London I called upon the milliner, who had recognised Straker as an excellent customer of the name of Derbyshire, who had a very dashing wife, with a strong partiality for expensive dresses. | |
| 5. | adj. | He was a dashing, swaggering chap, smart and curled, who had seen half the world and could talk of what he had seen. | |
| 6. | adj. | He was a dashing, jovial old solder in his usual mood, but there were occasions on which he seemed to show himself capable of considerable violence and vindictiveness. | |
| 7. | verb | How dashing! | |
| 8. | verb | She had a commission from her father in the city, and was dashing in as she had done many a time before, with all the fearlessness of youth, thinking only of her task and how it was to be performed. | |
| 9. | verb | You look dashing. | |
| 10. | verb | The rain was dashing against the window-panes as if an angry spirit were within it. | |
| 11. | verb | He looked dashing in a tuxedo. | |
| 12. | verb | Don't dash off a sloppily written report filled with mistakes. | |
| 13. | verb | I must dash or I'll be late. | |
| 14. | verb | The rain stopped just long enough for me to dash into the cafe without getting wet. | |
| 15. | verb | Tom had to dash into the bushes to answer a call of nature. | |
| 16. | verb | There are swift-flowing rivers which dash through jagged cañons; and there are enormous plains, which in winter are white with snow, and in summer are grey with saline alkali dust. | |
| 17. | verb | More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!" | |
| 18. | verb | Don't dash off a sloppily written report filled with mistakes. | |
| 19. | verb | I must dash or I'll be late. | |
| 20. | verb | The rain stopped just long enough for me to dash into the cafe without getting wet. | |
| 21. | verb | Tom had to dash into the bushes to answer a call of nature. | |
| 22. | noun | He made a dash for the door. | |
| 23. | noun | He wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer. | |
| 24. | noun | He is preparing for the 100-yard dash. |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| A dashing hero. |
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| Now that you mention it, I remember he was a dashing man. I wonder how he's doing? | |
| Tom looked quite dashing. | |
| When I returned to London I called upon the milliner, who had recognised Straker as an excellent customer of the name of Derbyshire, who had a very dashing wife, with a strong partiality for expensive dresses. | |
| He was a dashing, swaggering chap, smart and curled, who had seen half the world and could talk of what he had seen. | |
| He was a dashing, jovial old solder in his usual mood, but there were occasions on which he seemed to show himself capable of considerable violence and vindictiveness. | |
| verb | |
| How dashing! | |
| She had a commission from her father in the city, and was dashing in as she had done many a time before, with all the fearlessness of youth, thinking only of her task and how it was to be performed. | |
| You look dashing. | |
| The rain was dashing against the window-panes as if an angry spirit were within it. | |
| He looked dashing in a tuxedo. | |
| Don't dash off a sloppily written report filled with mistakes. | |
| I must dash or I'll be late. | |
| The rain stopped just long enough for me to dash into the cafe without getting wet. | |
| Tom had to dash into the bushes to answer a call of nature. | |
| There are swift-flowing rivers which dash through jagged cañons; and there are enormous plains, which in winter are white with snow, and in summer are grey with saline alkali dust. | |
| More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!" | |
| Don't dash off a sloppily written report filled with mistakes. | |
| I must dash or I'll be late. | |
| The rain stopped just long enough for me to dash into the cafe without getting wet. | |
| Tom had to dash into the bushes to answer a call of nature. | |
| noun | |
| He made a dash for the door. |
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| He wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer. |
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| He is preparing for the 100-yard dash. |
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