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.

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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

(transitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.

* 1597 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, part 1 :

Go Peto, to horse: for thou, and I, / Haue thirtie miles to ride yet ere dinner time.

* 1814 , Jane Austen, Mansfield Park :

I will take my horse early tomorrow morning and ride over to Stoke, and settle with one of them.

* 1923 , "Mrs. Rinehart", Time , 28 Apr 1923:

It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes.

* 2010 , The Guardian , 6 Oct 2010:

The original winner Azizulhasni Awang of Malaysia was relegated after riding too aggressively to storm from fourth to first on the final bend.

(transitive) To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.

* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :

Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.

* 1960 , "Biznelcmd", Time , 20 Jun 1960:

In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets.

The cab rode him downtown.

Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.

* Dryden

Men once walked where ships at anchor ride .

* 1719 , Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe :

By noon the sea went very high indeed, and our ship rode forecastle in, shipped several seas, and we thought once or twice our anchor had come home

(intransitive) To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.

The witch cackled and rode away on her broomstick.

To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.

A horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

(transitive) To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.

* c. 1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Nun's Priest's Tale", Canterbury Tales :

Womman is mannes Ioye and al his blis / ffor whan I feele a nyght your softe syde / Al be it that I may nat on yow ryde / ffor þat oure perche is maad so narwe allas [...].

* 1997 , Linda Howard, Son of the Morning , p. 345:

She rode him hard, and he squeezed her breasts, and she came again.

(colloquial) To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).

* 2002 , Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the haunted generation , p. 375:

“One old boy started riding me about not having gone to Vietnam; I just spit my coffee at him, and he backed off.

Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.

* 2008 , Ann Kessel, The Guardian , 27 Jul 2008:

In athletics, triple jumper Ashia Hansen advises a thong for training because, while knickers ride up, ‘thongs have nowhere left to go’: but in Beijing Britain's best are likely, she says, to forgo knickers altogether, preferring to go commando for their country under their GB kit.

To rely, depend (on).

* 2006 , "Grappling with deficits", The Economist , 9 Mar 2006:

With so much riding on the new payments system, it was thus a grave embarrassment to the government when the tariff for 2006-07 had to be withdrawn for amendments towards the end of February.

Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).

* 2001 , Jenny Eliscu, "Oops...she's doing it again", The Observer , 16 Sep 2001:

She's wearing inky-blue jeans that ride low enough on her hips that her aquamarine thong peeks out teasingly at the back.

(lacrosse) To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

* Jonathan Swift

The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.

To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

* Sir Walter Scott

The only men that safe can ride / Mine errands on the Scottish side.

(surgery) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.