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English
Pronunciation
- (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈdɛdɛnd/
- (noun, verb) IPA(key): /dɛdˈɛnd/
- Rhymes: (noun, verb) -ɛnd
Adjective
dead-end (comparative more dead-end, superlative most dead-end)
- 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
dead-end (third-person singular simple present dead-ends, present participle dead-ending, simple past and past participle dead-ended)
- (US) To come to a dead-end.
- Watch out! The road dead-ends in 200 yards and there's nowhere to turn around!
Noun
dead-end (plural dead-ends)
- A road with no exit.
- We turned into the street and realised it was a dead-end.
- (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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