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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cul, cul de sac, dead endnoun

    a passage with access only at one end

  2. deadlock, dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstilladjective

    a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

    "reached an impasse on the negotiations"

  3. dead-endadjective

    lacking opportunities for development or advancement

    "stuck in a dead-end job"

Wiktionary

  1. dead-endnoun

    The end of a road, (or by extension), the end of any event.

  2. dead-endverb

    To come to a dead-end

    Watch out! The road dead-ends in 200 yards and there's nowhere to turn around!

  3. dead-endadjective

    Going nowhere; blocked.

ChatGPT

  1. dead-end

    A dead-end is a point in a situation, process, or physical space at which no further progress, development or movement is possible. It usually refers to a street or passage that is closed at one end, or a situation that leads to no success or positive result.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dead-end in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dead-end in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of dead-end in a Sentence

  1. Vladimir Putin:

    Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.

  2. Xu Xing:

    It's a failed experiment, it's an evolutionary dead end, over the last 30 years, there were so many discoveries made that demonstrate birds are really descendants of dinosaurs.

  3. Adam Mount:

    This approach is clearly a dead end. There are no indications that North Korea is interested in returning to the world of 'fire and fury', the concern now is the president's reaction. Will he calculate that he stands to gain more domestically with returning to threats? Does he want to distract from domestic political or legal problems? All of those things could have volatile results.

  4. Rafik Hariri:

    I can't hide this from you. I have reached a dead end.

  5. Charalambos Mouratidis:

    I started farming, hoping to have some kind of a more stable future, and now even that effort is at stake, everyone has reached a dead end in this village.


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