The word 'dashed' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a sudden, brief, or abrupt action or movement, or a line that is drawn in pieces. For example: The runner dashed across the finish line in record time.
I am afraid these hopes will be dashed too.
But hopes were dashed that the long-awaited report would automatically lead to a big increase in the stock of traditional hospital beds.
Hundreds of former Comet employees are to lose out on compensation for being laid off incorrectly after an employment tribunal ruling on Friday dashed hopes of a payout.
Savers wanting an early rise in interest rates had their hopes dashed on Wednesday, as it emerged that the two members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee who have repeatedly backed higher borrowing costs have changed their minds.
If not, such harmony as has existed in Malaysia could be dashed on the rocks of a sectarianism that provided the rationale for "guided democracy" in the first place.
The 7-1 rout by the Germans in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday was the worst ever suffered by Brazil, and a first competitive home defeat in 39 years, as their hopes of avenging their defeat to Uruguay in the final back in 1950 were emphatically dashed.
Witnesses reported that a sign at the front of the store had fallen off and that the shop worker was trapped underneath as members of the public dashed over to lift it up.
Or a place where hopes are dashed on the rocks of isolated despair, as in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, before the protagonist eventually finds inner strength and friendship in Friday?
Floated into the area by Brehme, the ball was nodded towards the edge of the six-yard box, where the goalkeeper Hans van Breuckelen grabbed it, having dashed off his line to do so.
