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dashed

/dæʃt/

Rhymes with -æʃt

verb

participle, past past participle of dash

adjective more dashed · most dashed

of a line Made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
Similar: broken
UK, dated, euphemistic, informal Damned. It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.
Similar: darned

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: dotted, broken, scanned, sped, reversed, staple, crushed, shattered, hatched, sprayed, discontinuous, annihilated, obliterated, destroyed, defeated, tore

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@misc{dashed_2026,
  title = {dashed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dashed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}