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Dead end   /dɛd ɛnd/   Listen
Dead end

noun
1.
A passage with access only at one end.  Synonyms: cul, cul de sac.
2.
A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible.  Synonyms: deadlock, impasse, stalemate, standstill.






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"Dead end" Quotes from Famous Books



... the door. Then, finding it was not locked, he walked in. The Red Un lay perched aloft; the shirt of his small pajamas had worked up about his neck and his thin torso lay bare. In one hand he clutched the dead end of a cigarette. The Senior wakened him by running a forefinger down his ribs, much as a boy runs a stick along a ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart



Words linked to "Dead end" :   passage, situation



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