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Meanings of dead end in inglês

português
impasse
catalão
punt mort
espanhol
punto muerto

A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible.

impasse
português
beco sem saída

A passage with access only at one end.

beco sem saída
Usage of dead end in inglês
1
As far as Richard could remember, Hanway Place was a dead end.
Neverwhere
2
But, in more recent years, it has run into a dead end.
The Irish Times
3
And for my purposes, I'm afraid geothermal energy is a dead end.
Revival
4
I was wrong in thinking that the Bridge was a dead end.
Cities in Flight
5
Women's studies courses, which encourage resentful, separatist thinking, are a dead end.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
6
I shuffled forward until the crawl space came to a dead end.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
7
We sat down and decided things had come to a dead end.
The Guardian
8
To take one position or another is to hit a dead end.
The Guardian
9
She'd had plenty of experience with the databases being a dead end.
The cold room
10
He readily acknowledges the museum's cloning research may hit a dead end.
Wired
11
She'd memorized every twist and dead end of the narrow walled ways.
Night of Knives
12
Sorry to offer a dead end, man, Bealey added, and hung up.
Strong, sleek and sinful
13
It was a dead end but here they called it a cul-de-sac.
Death angel
14
Rabban stood at the dead end in dismay, looking over the precipice.
Paul of dune
15
If we don't check out this address, we've hit a dead end.
The nightmarys
16
Stepping around the corpse, she continued, shortly coming to a dead end.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
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United States of America
Common
Australia
Common
Ireland
Common
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