dashed

Verb

past participle of dash

Adjective

(comparative more dashed, superlative most dashed)

Of a line, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
(UK, informal) A euphemism for damned.
It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.

Usage notes

Dashed in the sense of "damned" is considered to be upper-class or somewhat old-fashioned.

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She dashed out the door and jumped into the car.
She dashed around, pausing to gape at the storm as she closed each window securely against its fury.
She dashed off to her room to retrieve it.
The Jacobin Club was closed, thanks to the ability of Fouche, the new minister of Police; but the hopes of Sieyes were dashed by the death of General Joubert, commander of the Army of Italy, at the disastrous battle of Novi (15th of August).
With the melting of the ice the more daring spirits dashed into the new current with such ardour that for them all traditions, all institutions, were thrown into hotchpot; even elderly and sober physicians took enough of the infection to liberate their minds, and, in the field of the several diseases and in that of post-mortem pathology, the hollowness of classification by superficial resemblance, the transitoriness of forms, and the flow of processes, broke upon the view.

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