<span class="searchmatch">dead</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> <span class="searchmatch">walls</span>) (architecture) A blank <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> unbroken by windows or other openings. (mahjong) A section of the <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> from which tiles are not...
<span class="searchmatch">dead</span> <span class="searchmatch">walls</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>...
tree, <span class="searchmatch">dead</span>-tree <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> tree edition, <span class="searchmatch">dead</span>-tree edition deadvoice <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> wagon <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> water <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> week <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> weight <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> white European male <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> wind...
<span class="searchmatch">dead</span>-air space (plural <span class="searchmatch">dead</span>-air spaces) (construction) A sealed airspace in a cavity <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>....
the battery was as <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> as a doorknob. I found the mouse who lived in our <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>, lying on his back with his feet in the air—as <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> as a doorknob. Many...
the <span class="searchmatch">walls</span> cobwall cookie <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> cosmic <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> crosswall curtain <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> curtainwall <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> diaphragm <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> domain <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> Dono<span class="searchmatch">Wall</span> drive someone to the <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> drive...
head <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> of the 60-foot <span class="searchmatch">dead</span>-end tunnel because, as we have seen, the Metropolitan's plans to extend the line south had come to nothing. blocked <span class="searchmatch">dead</span>-end...
head against the <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>. bang one's head against a brick <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> (third-person singular simple present bangs one's head against a brick <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>, present participle...
fair enough to listen to me? . . . Hitherto you have opposed to me a <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> of silence." 1912, Edith Wharton, chapter 38, in The Reef[1], New York...
blind hole (plural blind holes) (engineering) A hole that does not extend completely through the <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>; a <span class="searchmatch">dead</span> end hole. Translations...