Sekirov Dictionary

dead end

/dɛdˈɛnd/

noun 4
dead-end verb 2
dead-end adjective 1
forms 6

noun4

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A street or path or tunnel that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.
- That road comes to a dead end at the lake.
The inner end of a drift or tunnel.
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(figurative) A position that offers no hope of change or progress.
- Her father suggested that she decline the job because it was a dead end.
•
A split end in the hair.
- Cut the ends of the hair once a month certain — no matter if you do cut but just the tips of a fourth of an inch, cut it. Cut off the dead ends every month as regularly as the new moon comes round. — 1890

dead-end verb2

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(US) To come to a dead-end.
- Watch out! The road dead-ends in 200 yards and there's nowhere to turn around!
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To come to nothing; to reach a hopeless situation.
- Dumas' tangle of unrequited, misplaced and dead-ended love — 1986

dead-end adjective1

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Going nowhere; blocked.
- I felt trapped in a dead-end job.

forms

dead-ended · dead-ending · dead-ends · dead ends · more dead-end · most dead-end

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