Definitions for dead-end

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Spelling: [ded-end]

IPA: /ˈdɛdˈɛnd/

Dead-End is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in dead-end (-adddeen).

Definitions for dead-end

noun

1. something, as a street or water pipe, that has no exit.
2. a position that offers no hope of progress; blind alley; cul-de-sac:

adjective

1. terminating in a dead end:
2. Also, dead-ended. having no possibility for or hope of progress, advancement, etc.:
3. leading a life in the slums:

verb (used without object)

1. to come to a dead end:

Origin of dead-end

First recorded in 1885-90

Examples for dead-end

He was heading into a dead-end street, but there was an alley leading from it.

And if they have both houses, meaning that the vote in the House would not be certain to hit a Senate dead-end, well, look out.

But to nurse back to health a man who was to be court-martialled and shot, truly that seemed a dead-end occupation.

Her father is about to return, and his storyline—long a bit of a dead-end as well—will eventually wrap up, I imagine.

Just about the stuffiest, dullest, dead-end in the universe.

What they have done is taken a small neighborhood with dead-end streets and turned it into a medical neighborhood.

We type onward with our pulseless characters and dead-end subplots looking for the point of it all.

There is very little traffic across the frontier, so that Bridgetown station is a sort of dead-end.

Thirty-five years old and working a dead-end job like this—Sammy was thirty-five.

A yellow, ivy-covered house on a dead-end street in Newark, Delaware.