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dead end
dead end
1. noun A road that leads nowhere. I knew my GPS was wrong when it told me to turn onto a road that came to a dead end.
2. adjective Prohibitive of progress or advancement. (Sometimes hyphenated.) Jerry decided he couldn't spend another minute working at that dead end job with no possibility for a promotion. The police received a lot of dead-end leads, but nothing that led them to the killer.
dead end
1. A passage that has no exit, as in This street's a dead end, so turn back. [Late 1800s]
2. An impasse or blind alley, allowing no progress to be made. For example, This job is a dead end; I'll never be able to advance. [c. 1920]
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Hamo | | - | Medieval English |
Buz | | BUZ (English) | Biblical |
Burris | | ['bʌris] | |
Nirmala | | neer-MAH-lah (Indonesian) | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Nepali, Indonesian |
Volodymyr | | - | Ukrainian |
Harmony | | HAHR-mə-nee | English |