dead end

English

Alternative forms

• dead-end

Noun

dead end (plural dead ends)

1. (idiomatic) A path or strategy that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.

   That road comes to a dead end at the lake.

Translations

a path that goes nowhere

Catalan: cul-de-sac (ca) m. atzucac (ca) m. Estonian: tupik (et) Finnish: umpikuja (fi) French: cul-de-sac (fr) m., impasse (fr) f. German: Sackgasse (de) f.

Italian: vicolo cieco (it) m. Russian: тупик (ru) (tupík) m. Spanish: calle sin salida (es) f. Turkish: çıkmaz sokak (tr)

See also

• cul-de-sac
• blind alley