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Noun blind alley has 2 senses

• blind alley(n = noun.artifact) cul de sac, dead-end street, impasse - a street with only one way in or out; Array
is a kind of thoroughfare

• blind alley(n = noun.act) Array - (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement; "all the clues led the police into blind alleys"; "so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley"
is a kind of course, course of action

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blind alley

Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, bar, barrier, belt highway, blank wall, blind gut, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, boulevard, box, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, cecum, chaussee, choking, choking off, circumferential, clog, close, congestion, constipation, corduroy road, corner, costiveness, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead end, dead-end street, deadlock, dike, dirt road, drive, driveway, embolism, embolus, expressway, extremity, freeway, gorge, gravel road, halt, highroad, highway, highways and byways, hole, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, interstate highway, jam, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, parkway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, pocket, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, sealing off, secondary road, speedway, stalemate, stand, standstill, state highway, stop, stoppage, strangulation, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, turnpike, wynd

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Closure

N closure, occlusion, blockade, shutting up, obstruction, embolus, contraction, infarction, constipation, obstipation, blind alley, blind corner, keddah, cul-de-sac, caecum, imperforation, imperviousness, impermeability, stopper, closed, shut, operculated, unopened, unpierced, imporous, caecal, closable, imperforate, impervious, impermeable, impenetrable, impassable, unpassable, invious, pathless, wayless, untrodden, untrod, unventilated, air tight, water tight, hermetically sealed, tight, snug.

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