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Grammar : Noun

Definition of dead weight

As in clog : noun blockage
As in impediment : noun obstruction, hindrance

Example sentences :

You will find that I shall be of no use to you—that I shall be a dead weight on your hands.
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

The weight which had crushed the bush down had been a prone, dead weight.
Extract from : « Pee-wee Harris » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

And why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the whole Christendom?
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Between us the dead weight didn't seem too intolerable—not at first.
Extract from : « The Man the Martians Made » by Frank Belknap Long

So he left her, and went home with a dead weight at his heart.
Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair

It was as the lifting of a dead weight which had crushed her heart within her.
Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum

Sol struggled towards the house with her dead weight on his leg.
Extract from : « Dream Town » by Henry Slesar

At last they yielded, and the dead weight tumbled in a heap before him.
Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller

But I tell you it was hard work getting him up, he was such a dead weight!
Extract from : « We Ten » by Lyda Farrington Kraus

The entente cordiale is simply a fetter and a dead weight upon you.
Extract from : « Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

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