deadlift

English

Etymology

dead +‎ lift

Noun

deadlift (plural deadlifts)

1. (weightlifting) A weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized bent-over position.
   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii

     I never did a squat or a deadlift—the exercises I now know are best for building a bigger, stronger, more athletic-looking body—because I had access to leg-extension, leg-curl, and leg-press machines.

2. Any lift performed without help or leverage.
3. (figurative, by extension) An effort made under discouraging conditions.

Derived terms

• Romanian deadlift
• sumo deadlift

Translations

weight training exercise

• Finnish: maastaveto (fi)
• French: soulevé de terre (fr) m
• German: Kreuzheben (de) n
• Hebrew: דדליפט m (dedlift)
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• Italian: stacco da terra
• Spanish: peso muerto m
• Ukrainian: мертве зведення n (mertve zvedennja)

Verb

deadlift (third-person singular simple present deadlifts, present participle deadlifting, simple past and past participle deadlifted)

1. (transitive) To lift a barbell while moving the body from a bent-over position to a standing position.

Translations

to lift

• Dutch: deadliften
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See also

• clean and jerk
• squat