Usually means: No exit, progress completely blocked.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word dead end:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead-end, dead end: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead end: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead-end, dead end: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dead-end, dead-end, dead end: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dead-end, dead end: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dead-End, dead-end: Wordnik
  7. dead end: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dead-end, dead end: Wiktionary
  9. dead-end, dead end: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dead end: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dead-end, dead end: Dictionary.com
  12. Dead End (Angel), Dead End (Angel episode), Dead End (Turbo album), Dead End (band), Dead End (manga), Dead End (play), Dead End, Dead end (disambiguation), Dead end (street), Dead end, The Dead End: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. dead-end, dead end: Rhymezone
  14. dead-end, dead end: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dead-end, dead end: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. dead-end, dead end: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. dead-end: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  18. dead end: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Dead End (disambiguation), dead-end, dead end: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead-end, dead end: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead-end, dead end: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead end: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dead end)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A street or path or tunnel that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.
▸ noun:  (mining) The inner end of a drift or tunnel.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A position that offers no hope of change or progress.
▸ noun:  A split end in the hair.

Similar:
blind alley, impasse, cul de sac, dead-end street, dead-end, deadend, cul-de-sac, dumb chamber, one-way ticket to Palookaville, arse end of nowhere, more...

Opposite:
exit

Types:
cul-de-sac, blind alley, more...

Phrases:
dead end street, dead end host, dead end job, Dead End Kids, Last House on Dead End Street, more...

Adjectives:
crash, dead-end, breakout, getaway, way out, cutoff, breakaway, dodge, lag, stopgap, up



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Similar:
blind alley, impasse, cul de sac, dead-end street, dead-end, deadend, cul-de-sac, dumb chamber, one-way ticket to Palookaville, arse end of nowhere, more...

Opposite:
exit

Types:
cul-de-sac, blind alley, more...

Phrases:
dead end street, dead end host, dead end job, Dead End Kids, Last House on Dead End Street, Dead End Kings, Dead End in Norvelt, sign before a dead end, dead end kid, more...

Adjectives:
crash, dead-end, breakout, getaway, way out, cutoff, breakaway, dodge, lag, stopgap, up



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