dash

v

1. smash, shatter, crash, Brit. Dial. pash; strike, break, split, cleave, rive, rend; shiver, fragment, splinter, crack, split, snap; crush, destroy; beat, batter, slam, ram, hit, smite.

2. throw, hurl, catapult; fling, cast, sling, shy, pitch; propel, shoot, drive, thrust; heave, chuck.

3. splash, besplash, slosh, swash, plash, dabble; spatter, bespatter, splotch; sprinkle, besprinkle, dot, speckle, spangle; daub.

4. mix, admix, blend, commingle; adulterate, debase, pollute, contaminate, taint, alloy; dilute, weaken, thin, Sl. cut; strengthen, lace, Inf. spike.

5. ruin, blight, spoil; frustrate, thwart, check, balk, foil, bring to naught; defeat, overthrow.

6. depress, dispirit, deject, cast down, sadden, prostrate; dishearten, discourage, dismay, daunt, unman, undo; disappoint, dampen, throw a damper on.

7. confound, baffle, confuse, disconcert, discomfit; abash, humiliate, mortify, embarrass, chagrin.

8. rush, dart, bolt, bound, spring; run, sprint, fly, hasten, speed, take off; scud, Inf. scoot, Inf. skedaddle.

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9.(all usu. of water) splashing, crashing, smashing, clashing, colliding; breaking against, beating, striking, hitting, battering.

10. bit, little, pinch, grain, Inf. smidgen, U.S. Inf. tad; shade, touch, tinge, tincture; trace, suggestion, suspicion, soupgon, hint, smack, flavor, taste; sprinkle, sprinkling.

11. rush, run, Track. race; bolt, flight, stampede, escape; advance, sally, onset.

12. elan, vigor, style, flair, flourish, panache, Inf. pizzazz, Sl. oomph; bounce, zing, zest, verve; spirit, life, buoyancy, briskness, Inf. snap; enthusiasm, eagerness, ardor, fervor; abandon, exuberance, vitality, exuberance, vitality, vivacity, It. brio.

13. mettle, pluck, courage; gallantry, boldness, daring, intrepidity, fearlessness.