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Synonyms for dash
Synonyms for dash: bolt, style, smash and sprint. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for dash
Interchangeable with dash, one per sense
Audited under dash's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one dash carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name dash as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under dash and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
the act of moving with great haste
He made a dash for the door.
The true synonym
bolt
Same sentence, swapped: He made a bolt for the door.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for dash in the sentence quoted.
- flair
- dah
- cross
distinctive and stylish elegance
He wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer.
The true synonym
style
Same sentence, swapped: He wooed her with the confident style of a cavalry officer.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- bolt
- dah
- breeding
Where dash turns up in the game
dash is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where dash is the trap
- stylenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is way, in the sense "how something is done or how it happens", with dash sitting one tile away.
- pasteverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is glue, in the sense "join or attach with or as if with glue", so dash is there to be ruled out.
- forknoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is crotch, in the sense "the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches", and dash is on the board beside it.
- stylenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is trend, in the sense "the popular taste at a given time", with dash sitting one tile away.
Play dash
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dash reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dash carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.