Verb

(es)

To run quickly or for a short distance.

He dashed across the field.

(informal) To leave or depart.

I have to dash now. See you soon.

To destroy by striking (against).

He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21

"`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4

Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.

To throw violently.

The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.

* Francis Bacon

If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.

To sprinkle; to splatter.

* Thomson

On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade all dashing fall.

(of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.

Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=September 13 , author=Sam Lyon , title=Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.}}

To dishearten; to sadden.

Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.

To complete hastily, usually with down'' or ''off .

He dashed''' down his eggs'', ''she '''dashed off her homework

To draw quickly; jot.

* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

"Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.

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.

to dash''' wine with water; to '''dash paint upon a picture

* Addison

I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.

* Tennyson

The very source and fount of day / Is dashed with wandering isles of night.

Verb

(escap)

To get free, to free oneself.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}

To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

* Shakespeare

sailors that escaped the wreck

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

, title= Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd , passage=Luiz was Chelsea's stand-out performer, although Ferguson also had a case when he questioned how the £21m defender escaped a red card after the break for a hack at Rooney, with the Brazilian having already been booked.}}

To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.

* Ludlow

They escaped the search of the enemy.

(computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.

* 1998 August, (Tim Berners-Lee) et al. , Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8:

If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.

* {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Scott Worley, chapter=Using XML in ASP.NET Applications

, title= Inside ASP.NET , isbn=0735711356, page=214 , passage=Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Michael Cross, chapter=Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering

, title= Developer's Guide to Web Application Security , isbn=159749061X, page=213 , passage=Therefore, what follows is a list of typical output functions; your job is to determine if any of the functions print out tainted data that has not been passed through some sort of HTML escaping function.}}

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.