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Dead End
- noun - a passage with access only at one end
- a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations"
Dead-End
- adjective - lacking opportunities for development or advancement; "stuck in a dead-end job"
Deadened
- verb - become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
- cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant"
- devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
- lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
- made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger"
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
- make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
Deadhead
- noun - a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way; "the deadheads on the payroll should be eased out as fast as possible"
- a train or bus or taxi traveling empty
- to prune dead flowers from a plant
Deadwood
- noun - a branch or a part of a tree that is dead
- someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded
Dendroid
- adjective - resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges"
Diddered
- verb - move with or as if with a tremor; "his hands shook"
Doddered
- verb - walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"