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Antonyms for dead-end
Grammar : Adj, noun, verb |
Spell : ded-end |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛdˈɛnd |
Definition of dead-end
Origin :- "closed end of a passage," 1886, from dead (adj.) + end (n.). Figurative use is attested from 1922. As an adjective, from 1928; as a verb, from 1921. Related: Deadender (by 1996).
- As in blind : adj hidden or covered
- As in dead end : noun cul-de-sac; deadlock
- As in stymie : verb frustrate, hinder
- Just about the stuffiest, dullest, dead-end in the universe.
- Extract from : « Deathworld » by Harry Harrison
- He was heading into a dead-end street, but there was an alley leading from it.
- Extract from : « Pursuit » by Lester del Rey
- But to nurse back to health a man who was to be court-martialled and shot, truly that seemed a dead-end occupation.
- Extract from : « The Backwash of War » by Ellen N. La Motte
- Thirty-five years old and working a dead-end job like this—Sammy was thirty-five.
- Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow
- There is very little traffic across the frontier, so that Bridgetown station is a sort of dead-end.
- Extract from : « Meccania » by Owen Gregory
- Perhaps the lone human on Jumala herded up into this dead-end valley by the globes or the blue beasts.
- Extract from : « Star Hunter » by Andre Alice Norton
- The dead-end of nowhere, Neale called it, and the automobile gathered speed as it went by.
- Extract from : « The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies » by Grace Brooks Hill
- When he had neared the top he suddenly seemed to reach a dead-end; the stones were smooth above him.
- Extract from : « Warlord of Kor » by Terry Gene Carr
Synonyms for dead-end
- balk
- blank wall
- blind alley
- block
- blocked
- Catch-22
- choke off
- closed
- closed at one end
- concealed
- confound
- corner
- crab
- cramp
- cramp one's style
- crimp
- cut off
- dark
- dead-end
- defeat
- dim
- disguised
- draw
- foil
- give the run around
- hang fire
- hang up
- hold off
- hold up
- impassable
- impasse
- impede
- leading nowhere
- mystify
- nonplus
- nowhere to turn
- obscured
- obstacle
- obstruct
- obstructed
- pigeonhole
- prevent
- put on back burner
- put on hold
- puzzle
- road block
- secluded
- shelve
- snooker
- stalemate
- stall
- standoff
- stonewall
- stumbling block
- stump
- throw a monkey wrench into
- thwart
- unmarked
- without egress
- without exit
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