flashed
Because it is a word with a single syllable, flashed is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions offlashed
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
Example: "He flashed the light at the water, trying to see what made the noise."
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
Example: "The light flashed on and off."
- To be visible briefly.
Example: "The scenery flashed by quickly."
- To make visible briefly.
Example: "A number will be flashed on the screen."
- To briefly, and often unintentionally, expose one's naked body or underwear, or part of it, in public. (Contrast streak.)
Example: "Her skirt was so short that she flashed her underpants as she was getting out of her car."
- To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons or as an act of contempt.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
Example: "He flashed a wad of hundred-dollar bills."
- To communicate quickly.
Example: "The news services flashed the news about the end of the war to all corners of the globe."
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
Example: "Flash forward to the present day."
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
Example: "Susan flashed Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call."
- (of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- (glassmaking) To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To burst out into violence.
- To perform a flash.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To trick up in a showy manner.
- To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
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