Definitions for dead-weight

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Dead-Weight is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in dead-weight (-addeeghitw).

Definitions for dead-weight

noun

1. the heavy, unrelieved weight of anything inert:
2. a heavy or oppressive burden or responsibility.
3. the weight of a railroad car, truck, etc., as distinct from its load or contents.

Origin of dead-weight

First recorded in 1650-60

Examples for dead-weight

Between us the dead weight didn't seem too intolerable—not at first.

So he left her, and went home with a dead weight at his heart.

It was as the lifting of a dead weight which had crushed her heart within her.

And why drag this dead weight of a Sunday-school over the whole Christendom?

The Chinook vibrated with deeper and deeper groans until its twin engines managed to heave up our dead weight.

In contrast, if you have a 40-mile battery, for many shorter trips this investment is nothing but dead weight.

We need to celebrate our gains and victories while we continue to put fire to the feet of dead weight.

You will find that I shall be of no use to you—that I shall be a dead weight on your hands.

The weight which had crushed the bush down had been a prone, dead weight.

Sol struggled towards the house with her dead weight on his leg.