Dead End

Definition: Dead End

Dead End

Noun

1. A passage with access only at one end.

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Computing

Mining

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Transportation

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Synonyms: Dead End

Crosswords: Dead End

It's a dead end. (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

Looks like he came to a dead end. (Licence to Kill; writing credit: Michael G. Wilson; Richard Maibaum)

I thought it was a dead end, has been up to now. But I can make this -- I can make this spot that we're standing on the crossroads of the Earth. (Suez; writing credit: Sam Duncan; Philip Dunne)

Stay here on the outer limits of the dead end zone? (Neighbors; writing credit: Thomas Berger; Larry Gelbart)

Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? (Sleeper; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Now everyday on a dead end street is where I spend my time ("Legend In My Living Room"; performing artist: Len)

In a West End town, a dead end world ("WEST END GIRLS"; performing artist: Pet Shop Boys)

The Dead End Cats (1947)

Dead End (1937)

The Dead End (1914)

Dead End (2003)

Operation Dead End (1986)

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Books

• Dead End (reference)

• Dead End (Fear Street Super Chiller) (reference)

• Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know (reference)

• Dead End on the Camino: A Noa Webster Mystery (reference)

• Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expression using "dead end": dead end kid. Additional references.

Albanian

situata pa dalje, rrugë qorre (cul de sac, deadlock, impasse, stalemate), qorr (at random, blind, eyeless, sightless), pa dalje (blind), i shuar (blasted, defeated, erased, extinct, out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏طريق مسدود (impasse, logjam, stalemate, standstill), ‏طريق غير نافذ (close, impasse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сляпа улица (court, impasse), задънена улица (blind alley, close, cul de sac, deadlock, pocket), безизходно положение (blind alley, checkmate, deadlock, impasse, no go, stymie). (various references)

Chinese 

死衚衕 (blind alley). (various references)

Czech

slepá ulièka (blind alley, cul de sac, impasse, stalemate). (various references)

Danish

lyddoed flade, lukket vej (cul-de-sac), lukket gade (cul-de-sac), blindgang (cul-de-sacs), blind vej (cul de sac, cul-de-sac), afbrydelse af en kørsel (ABEND, abnormal end, abnormal termination), abend (ABEND, abnormal end, abnormal termination). (various references)

Dutch

doodlopende straat (cul-de-sac, dead-end street, impasse). (various references)

Finnish

virhelopetus (ABEND, abnormal end, abnormal termination), umpikuja (blind alley, cul-de-sac, deadlock, impasse), umpikatu (cul-de-sac). (various references)

French

impasse (cul de sac, dead-end street, deadlock, deficit), cul-de-sac (cul de sac). (various references)

German

sackgasse (blind alley, cul de sac, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, deadlock, impasse, stalemate). (various references)

Greek 

αδιέξοδο (blind alley, cul de sac, cul-de-sac, dead-end, deadlock, deadly embrace, knot, stalemate, system deadlock). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבוי סתום (blind alley, deadlock, impasse, logjam, stalemate), �"רך ללא מוצא (cul de sac). (various references)

Hungarian

zsákutca (blind alley, blind gut, cul de sac, cul-de-sac, impasse, logjam, mews, no through road, stand-off), reményekkel nem kecsegtetõ, kilátástalan (beyond hope, futureless). (various references)

Indonesian

mepet (no way out, tight (of circumstances)), jalan buntu (blind alley, deadlock, impasse). (various references)

Italian

vicolo cieco (cul de sac, cul-de-sac, dead-end street), strada senza uscita (cul de sac, no through road), sbocco (end, issue, market, mouth, outlet, river mouth, sales, sales activity), pannello insonorizzato, interruzione anomala (ABEND, abnormal end, abnormal termination), fine anormale (ABEND, abnormal end, abnormal termination). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

行詰り (deadlock, impasse, stalemate), 行き詰まり (deadlock, impasse, stalemate), 行き詰り (deadlock, impasse, stalemate), 行き止まり (no passage), デジタル通信 (copy editor, dead, dead copy, dead heat, dead stock, dead time, deadline, deadlock, death, death education, death mask, debug, debugger, debugging, deck, deck chair, dedicate, dedication, deduction, de-escalate, de-escalation, Denebola, denier, denim, denomination, denotation, denotational, department, department store, departure, description, desk, desk plan, desk work, desk-top, desperate, desperate struggle, despotism, destination, destroyer, detached coat, detail, detector, detente, deterrent gap, Detroit, devaluation, device, digital communication, distributor cap, divider, fight to a finish, hit a batter by pitching a ball, rough sketch, to eat at Denny's). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

デッドエンド , いきどまり (no passage), いきづまり (deadlock, impasse, stalemate), ゆきどまり (no passage), ゆきづまり (deadlock, impasse, stalemate). (various references)

Manx

kione kyagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

eadday enday.(various references)

Portuguese

beco sem saída (blind alley, corner, cul de sac, cul-de-sac, dead center, dead centre, dead lock, impassibility, point of no return, stalemate). (various references)

Romanian

capãt (beginning, bottom, close, conclusion, end, extremity, head, term, termination, tip). (various references)

Russian 

слепой конец, тупик (blind alley, blind lead, blind path, cul de sac, deadend, deadlock, deadset, dead-set, dock, impasse, lockup, lock-up, no go, puffin), глухой забой, зашедший в тупик, заглушенный (muffled), безвыходный (abysmal, desperate), безвыходное положение (blind alley, deadlock, impasse, labyrinth, no go, rat-trap, serbonian, stalemate, stymie). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ćorsokak (blind alley, cul de sac, deadlock, impasse, outlet). (various references)

Spanish

callejón sin salida (blind alley, bottleneck, cul de sac, cul-de-sac, impasse), calle sin salida (cul de sac, cul-de-sac). (various references)

Swedish

återvändsgränd (blind alley, close, cul de sac, cul-de-sac, impasse, no go), återvändsgata (blind alley, close, cul de sac, cul-de-sac, no go). (various references)

Turkish

umutsuz (bereft of hope, bleak, despairing, desperate, despondent, futureless, heavy-hearted, hopeless, past hope, remediless), sonu olmayan, sefil (abject, beggarly, destitute, down and out, down at heels, hangdog, miserable, poor, poverty stricken, rep, ropy, shabby, sordid, squalid, starveling, wretch, wretched), perişan (confused, dead beat, desolate, distraught, down and out, down at heels, forlorn, hangdog, out at elbows, poor, prostrate, ruinous, run down, scattered, seedy, shoestring, up the spout, wretched), kör uç, geleceği olmayan (futureless, stillborn), başarı şansı olmayan, çıkmaz sokak (blind alley, culde-sac, dead-end street, impasse), çıkmaz (cleft stick, crunch, culde-sac, dead, deadlock, den, dilemma, extreme, fix, impasse, inerasable, predicament, quag, quagmire, quicksand, scrape, stalemate, toughie), çıkışı olmayan. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng bế tắc không lối thoát, ngõ cụt nước bí, đường cùng (pound). (various references)

Misspellings

"Dead End" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deadend. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: addend, deaden, deaned.

-2 letters: added, ended.

-3 letters: dead, dean, deed, dene, need.

-4 letters: add, and, ane, dad, dee, den, end, nae, nee.

-5 letters: ad, ae, an, de, ed, en, na, ne.

+1 letter: dandered, deadened, demanded, desanded, maddened, saddened.

+2 letters: daundered, denudated, gladdened.

+3 letters: bemaddened, deadpanned, dunderhead, redemanded.

+4 letters: deadheading, dunderheads, roundheaded, unaddressed, undedicated, underhanded.

+5 letters: dodecahedron, dunderheaded, woodenheaded.

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