Synonyms for dead end
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ded-end |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛdˈɛnd |
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Définition of dead end
Origin :- "closed end of a passage," 1886, from dead (adj.) + end (n.). Figurative use is attested from 1922. As an adjective, from 1928; as a verb, from 1921. Related: Deadender (by 1996).
- noun cul-de-sac; deadlock
- It simply came to what seemed to be a dead end, like the others.
- Extract from : « A Chinese Command » by Harry Collingwood
- He might head her off; he might trap her in a dead end street.
- Extract from : « Earth Alert! » by Kris Neville
- Take out the old string, noticing how it passes over and under the felt at the dead end.
- Extract from : « Piano Tuning » by J. Cree Fischer
- We must wound es many ef them es we ken, end ellow the survivors to kerry off the dead end wounded.
- Extract from : « Two Knapsacks » by John Campbell
- Eventually the rift widened a little, and they came to a dead end, beyond which lay the cave.
- Extract from : « The Marooner » by Charles A. Stearns
- All of them knew they had reached a dead end, and none knew where to go from this point.
- Extract from : « The Pirates of Shan » by Harold Leland Goodwin
- Any result is simply the dead end of a force, like the sea-weed a submarine volcano has thrown to the surface of the ocean.
- Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright
- Once they reached what seemed to be a dead end, and lay on their stomachs surveying a sheer wall nearly twelve feet high.
- Extract from : « The Pirates of Shan » by Harold Leland Goodwin
- It was a dead end as it were, not only to the building in that part, but also to David's hopes in that direction.
- Extract from : « Under the Chinese Dragon » by F. S. Brereton
- These "pearls of ocean," the oldest of England's oversea possessions, have lain hitherto in what the Americans call a "dead end."
- Extract from : « The Panama Canal » by J. Saxon Mills
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