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1. with closed end: with no exit at one end
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2. without prospects: offering no prospects of progress, development, or improvement
 stuck in a dead-end job
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3. with no prospects: describes young people, usually from underprivileged backgrounds, whose behavior makes them unlikely to succeed in life
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intransitive verb (past and past participle dead-end·ed, present participle dead-end·ing, 3rd person present singular dead-ends) |
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come to dead end: to have no exit or prospect of further progress or development
A half a mile from here the road dead-ends.
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