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Synonyms for dead weight
Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for dead weight Other synonyms for the word dead weight
- bar
- barricade
- block
- blockade
- blockage
- burden
- catch
- Catch-22
- chain
- check
- clog
- cramp
- cumbrance
- curb
- dead weight
- delay
- detriment
- drag
- encumbrance
- fault
- hindrance
- hitch
- holdup
- hurdle
- impedance
- impediment
- inhibition
- load
- manacle
- millstone
- obstacle
- obstruction
- prohibition
- red tape
- restraint
- restriction
- retardation
- retardment
- road block
- rub
- setback
- shackle
- snag
- stoppage
- stricture
- stumbling block
- tie
- trammel
- wall
Définition of dead weight
- As in clog : noun blockage
- As in impediment : noun obstruction, hindrance
- 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
Antonyms for dead weight
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