dead-end

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English

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  • (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈdɛdɛnd/
  • (noun, verb) IPA(key): /dɛdˈɛnd/
  • Audio (General American):(file)
  • Rhymes: (noun, verb) -ɛnd

Adjective

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dead-end (comparative more dead-end, superlative most dead-end)

  1. Going nowhere; blocked.
    a dead-end street
    a dead-end job
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 124:
      [...] as it approached Platform 9 at Moorgate, the train, which ought to have been going at 15 miles an hour, was travelling at 35 m.p.h., and apparently accelerating. It smashed into the head wall of the 60-foot dead-end tunnel because, as we have seen, the Metropolitan's plans to extend the line south had come to nothing.

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Verb

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dead-end (third-person singular simple present dead-ends, present participle dead-ending, simple past and past participle dead-ended)

  1. (US) To come to a dead-end.
    Watch out! The road dead-ends in 200 yards and there's nowhere to turn around!

Noun

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dead-end (plural dead-ends)

  1. A road with no exit.
    We turned into the street and realised it was a dead-end.
  2. (by extension, figuratively) A position that offers no hope of progress.
    Mary realised her relationship with Jim had hit a dead-end.

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