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RELATED WORDS : back end be all and end all bitter end box end wrench brain dead butt end dead dead ahead dead air dead axle dead body dead center dead centre dead drop dead duck dead giveaway dead hand dead hand of the past dead heat dead language dead letter dead load dead mail dead march dead metaphor dead nettle dead of night dead on target dead pan dead person dead reckoning dead ringer dead room dead sea dead sea scrolls dead set dead shot dead soul dead stop dead tired dead to dead to the world dead weight drop dead end end all end game end man end matter end of the world end on end organ end point end product end result end run end up end user fag end front end gable end hind end in the end knock dead living dead loose end means to an end motor end plate nerve end no end office of the dead on end rear end scrag end split end sticky end stop dead tag end tail end tight end war to end war west end white dead nettle without end

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Noun dead end has 2 senses

• dead end(n = noun.artifact) cul, cul de sac - a passage with access only at one end; Array
is a kind of passage

• dead end(n = noun.state) deadlock, impasse, stalemate, standstill - a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations"
is a kind of situation

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dead end

bar, barrier, blank, blank wall, blind, blind alley, blind gut, blind-alley, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, box, cecal, cecum, choked, choked off, choking, choking off, clog, closed, congestion, constipation, constricted, contracted, corner, costiveness, cul-de-sac, dead, dead-end street, deadlock, embolism, embolus, extremity, gorge, halt, hole, impasse, impediment, infarct, infarction, jam, obstacle, obstipation, obstruction, pocket, sealing off, shut, squeezed shut, stalemate, stand, standstill, stop, stoppage, strangulated, strangulation, unopen, unopened, unvented, unventilated

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