Dead Set

Definition: Dead Set

Dead Set

Adjective

1. Fixed in your purpose; "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event".

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Literature

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Synonyms: Dead Set

Attack

Aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak; estrapade, ruade; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at.

Strike at, poke at, thrust at; aim a blow at, deal a blow at; give one a blow, fetch one a blow, fetch one a kick, give one a kick; have a cut at, have a shot at, take a cut at, take a shot at, have a fling at, have a shy at; be down upon, pounce upon; fall foul of, pitch into, launch out against; bait, slap on the face; make a thrust at, make a pass at, make a set at, make a dead set at; bear down upon.

Difficulty

Set fast, stand, standstill; deadlock, dead set.

Opposition

Verb: oppose, counteract, run counter to; withstand; (resist); control; (restrain); hinder; antagonize, oppugn, fly in the face of, go dead against, kick against, fall afoul of, run afoul of; set against, pit against; face, confront, cope with; make a stand, make a dead set against; set oneself against, set one's face against; protest against, vote against, raise one;s voice against; disfavor, turn one's back upon; set at naught, slap in the face, slam the door in one's face.

Books

• The Doubly Dead Set [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

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Expressions using "dead set": be dead set ♦ be dead set on doing smth. ♦ become dead set on smth. ♦ dead set at ♦ dead set to ♦ make a dead set at ♦ make a dead set on smb. ♦ To make a dead set. Additional references.

Albanian

vendosmëri (dash, decision, decisiveness, determination, firmness, flatness, purpose, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, steadiness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مصمم (bent on, dead set to, decided, decorator, designer, determined, intent, planned, planner, resolute, resolved, set, styler, unwavering). (various references)

Bulgarian 

решително нападение, твърдо решен (dead earnest, made up, resolved, set), отчаяно усилие. (various references)

German

verbohren (become dead set on smth.). (various references)

Hungarian

erőszakos támadás vki ellen. (various references)

Pig Latin

eadday etsay

Portuguese

pormenor (detail, full stop, minuteness, nicety, particular, point), ataque determinado, assunto (affair, article, business, business deal, case, concernment, full stop, material, matter, motif, object, palaver, point, proposition, question, shebang, subject, subject-matter, text, theme, thing, topic). (various references)

Romanian

ostilitate (enmity, hostility, ill blood, ill will), opoziţie (antagonism, antithesis, caveat, conflict, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, hostility, opponency, opposite, opposition, resistance, stand). (various references)

Russian 

стойка (cheek, column, handstand, leg, puncheon, rack, soda fountain, stanchion, stand, standard, stilt, strut, tree, upright). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

markiranje plena. (various references)

Spanish

decisividad. (various references)

Turkish

düşmanlık (animosity, animus, antagonism, bad blood, enmity, feud, hatred, hostility, opposition, venom, virulence, war), taban tabana zıtlık, istekli (agog, ambitious, anxious, applicant, aspirant, athirst for, cheerful, covetous, desirous, devout, disposed, eager, enthusiastic, forward, full of zeal, hellbent, inclinable, inclined, intense, intent, itching, itchy, keen, minded, ready, solicitous, strong, thirsty, voracious, willing, wishful, wistful), arka ayakları üzerine kalkma, ısrarlı tanıtım. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deadest, sedated, steaded.

-1 letter: seated, sedate, teased.

-2 letters: aedes, dated, dates, deads, deeds, deets, eased, sated, setae, stade, stead, steed, tease, tsade.

-3 letters: adds, ates, dads, date, dead, deed, dees, deet, ease, east, eats, etas, sade, sate, seat, seed, seta, tads, teas, teds, teed, tees.

-4 letters: add, ads, ate, dad, dee, eat, eds, eta, sad, sae, sat, sea.

+1 letter: bedstead, demasted, desalted, steadied.

+2 letters: bedsteads, besteaded, damnedest, darnedest, datedness, deadbeats, deadliest, deathbeds, decadents, dedicates, denudates, descanted, desolated, destained, disseated, stampeded, stewarded, wadsetted.

+3 letters: advertised, damnedests, decussated, dedicatees, defendants, dehydrates, dependants, depredates, descendant, desecrated, desiccated, desiderata, desiderate, designated, despatched, detasseled, devastated, disrelated, mastheaded, pedestaled, readjusted, saddletree, softheaded, stepladder, unsteadied.

+4 letters: adaptedness, datednesses, deadweights, deescalated, demodulates, depredators, desalinated, descendants, desiderated, desiderates, desideratum, desquamated, detasselled, dipeptidase, disaffected, disentailed, dissertated, homesteaded, miseducated, pedestalled, rededicates, saddletrees, sidetracked, stepladders, transcended, understated.