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Dashed vs. Smashed — What's the Difference?

Dashed vs. Smashed — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Dashed and Smashed

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Dashed

To move with haste; rush
Dashed into the room.
Dashed down the hall.

Smashed

Intoxicated; drunk.

Dashed

To strike violently; smash
Waves dashing on the rocks.

Smashed

(slang) Drunk.
I was so smashed last night, I don’t remember how I got home!

Dashed

To break or smash by striking violently
The ship was dashed upon the rocks.
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Smashed

Simple past tense and past participle of smash

Dashed

To hurl, knock, or thrust with sudden violence
Dashed the cup against the wall.

Smashed

Broken into sharp pieces;
Shattered glass
Your eyeglasses are smashed
The police came in through the splintered door

Dashed

To remove by striking or wiping
Dash tears from one's face.

Smashed

Very drunk

Dashed

To splash; bespatter
Dash water on one's face.

Dashed

To write hastily. Often used with off
Dashed off a note to the dean.

Dashed

To drink hastily. Often used with down
Dashed down a glass of milk.

Dashed

To add an enlivening or altering element to
A speech dashed with humor.

Dashed

To affect by adding another element or ingredient to
Ice cream that was dashed with rum.

Dashed

To destroy or wreck
Our hopes were dashed by the news.

Dashed

To discourage or dispirit
"This discouraging information a little dashed the child" (Charles Dickens).

Dashed

To damn.

Dashed

A swift, violent blow or stroke
Knocked the books to the floor with an impatient dash of his hand.

Dashed

A splash
Threw a dash of water on my face.

Dashed

A small amount of an added ingredient
A dash of sherry.

Dashed

A quick stroke, as with a pencil or brush.

Dashed

A sudden movement; a rush
Made a dash for the exit.

Dashed

(Sports) A footrace, usually less than a quarter-mile long, run at top speed from the outset.

Dashed

A spirited quality in action or style; verve.

Dashed

Either of two symbols, an emdash or an endash, used in writing and in printing.

Dashed

In Morse and similar codes, the long sound or signal used in combination with the dot and silent intervals to represent letters or numbers.

Dashed

A dashboard.

Dashed

Past participle of dash

Dashed

(of a line) Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

Dashed

Damned.
It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.

Dashed

Having gaps or spaces;
Sign on the dotted line

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