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Dead end   /dɛd ɛnd/   Listen
Dead end

noun
1.
A passage with access only at one end.  Synonyms: cul, cul de sac.
2.
A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible.  Synonyms: deadlock, impasse, stalemate, standstill.






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"Dead end" Quotes from Famous Books



... wells up in me for this lost egg, this dead end in the tree of life, George. One thinks of the humble but deserving amoeba, the primordial metazoon, the first fish, the remote reptile ancestor, the countless generations of forefathers that, so far as this egg went, have lived and learnt and suffered in vain. ...
— Select Conversations with an Uncle • H. G. Wells



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