dash

dash
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noun
1 sudden quick movement
ADJECTIVE
▪ quick, sudden
▪ frantic, mad, wild (esp. AmE)
▪ final, last-minute (both esp. BrE)
VERB + DASH
▪ make
PREPOSITION
▪ dash across
▪

We had to make a frantic dash across town to get our plane

▪ dash for
▪

He made a dash for the door.

▪ dash from
▪ dash through
▪

a mad dash through back alleys

▪

The book starts with a quick dash through the country's history. (esp. BrE)

▪ dash to
▪

He made a 200-mile dash to the hospital when a kidney donor became available.

2 small amount of sth
VERB + DASH
▪ add
▪

Add a dash of lemon juice.

PREPOSITION
▪ dash of
▪

The food is European with a dash of Morocco.

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verb
1 go/run quickly
ADVERB
▪ frantically
▪ about (esp. BrE), around, back, forward, off, out
▪

I have to dash off now.

VERB + DASH
▪ have to, must (esp. BrE)
▪

I have to dash—I'm late.

PREPOSITION
▪ across, along, down, in, into, out of, through, to, up
▪

He dashed frantically across the road.

2 destroy sth
ADVERB
▪ quickly
▪ cruelly (esp. BrE)
▪

Her hopes were cruelly dashed when her parents refused to let her go.

Dash is used with these nouns as the object: ↑hope

Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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