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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
dash .
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Examples
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Dasht may be either the town in Khorasan or the “forests” (dasht) belonging to Ahwáz
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Dewey's influence reached its zenith in August 1906, when Theodore Roosevelt, a sympathizer, issued an order directing the Government Printing Office to adopt new spellings for some 300 words -- for instance, prest, dasht, nite, thoro and good-by.
When Enough Is Enuf 2008
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And she ran then very speedy to the raft, and brought water from the river in my headpiece, and she dasht the water upon me; but I to have no power to come unto my senses.
The Night Land 2007
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And I made some of the water, and dasht it upon the face of Mine Own, and I chafed her hands; but truly it to have no use; neither did I truly to think it should be like to.
The Night Land 2007
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Paper was brought that momint; and Smith writing his harticle across the knife-bord, I dasht off mine on the dresser.
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At this word he modestly smiled: but the other Moals began to clap their hands, and to deride vs. And my silly interpreter, of whom especially I should haue receiued comfort in time of need, was himself abashed and vtterly dasht out of countenance.
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At this word he modestly smiled: but the other Moals began to clap their hands, and to deride vs. And my silly interpreter, of whom especially I should haue receiued comfort in time of need, was himself abashed and vtterly dasht out of countenance.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Emperour, and of the place might very well haue amazed our men, and haue dasht them out of countenance: but notwithstanding Master
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"Hain't a got none," stuttered the man again, "dasht if I has."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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Prologue (to the great prejudice of that which followed) was most shamefully out, and having but halfe a verse to say, so that by the very sense the audience was able to prompt him in that which followed, yet hee could not goe forward, but after long stay and silence, was compelled abruptly to leave the stage, whereupon beeing to play another part, hee was so dasht, that hee did nothing well that night.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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