DEAD WALL

  

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DEAD WALL

Definition: DEAD WALL

DEAD WALL

1. (Arch.), a blank wall unbroken by windows or other openings.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: DEAD WALL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Defense

Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos.

Hindrance

Beaver dam; trocha; barricade; (defense); wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne; bulkhead, block, buffer; stopper; boom, dam, weir, burrock.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DEAD WALL

English words defined with "DEAD WALL": dead. (references)

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Modern Translation: DEAD WALL

Language Translations for "DEAD WALL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

сляпа стена, калкан (party wall, turbot). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

blinde muur (blind wall, dead front). (various references)

   

French

  

mur orbe (dead front), facade sans fenetres (dead front), facade aveugle (dead front). (various references)

   

German

  

Blindgiebel (blind wall, dead front). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadday allway

   

Portuguese

  

parede nua. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

глухая стена (blank wall). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

slepi zid. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pared grande. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DEAD WALL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-l-l-w"

-2 letters: daedal, dawdle, ladled, waddle, walled.

-3 letters: addle, dawed, dedal, dwell, laded, ladle, lawed, waded, waled, walla, weald.

-4 letters: alae, awed, dada, dale, dead, deal, dell, lade, lead, leal, lewd, wade, wale, wall, weal, weld, well.

-5 letters: aal, add, ala, ale, all, awa, awe, awl, dad, dal, daw, del, dew, eld, ell, lad, law, lea.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-l-l-w"
 

+4 letters: downloadable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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