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Inf. fix, corner; dead end, blind alley, cul-de-sac.
-v. 3. stop, halt, cease, bring to a standstill; stand, stay, curb, check, checkmate; forestall, preclude, obviate, intercept; block, blockade, bar, debar; thwart, trump.
4. prostrate, paralyze, incapacitate, disable, render helpless, make ineffective; undermine, spike, Inf. put the kibosh on.
5. hinder, impede, obstruct, clog, trammel; cramp, bind, shackle, inhibit; corner, run or drive into a corner, drive or push to the wall, Inf. tree.
6. confuse, confound, perplex, bewilder, stump, embarrass, nonplus, Inf. flummox.
deadly, adj. 1. fatal, mortal, lethal, mortiferous, deathful, Archaic, lethiferous; pernicious, dangerous, hazardous, deleterious, detrimental; harmful, injurious, nocuous, hurtful, nocent, baleful, noisome; destructive, ruinous, calamitous, disastrous; pestilential, pestiferous, noxious, malicious, malign, malignant, menacing; venomous, virulent, toxic, morbific; fell, baneful, mephitic, viperous, poisonous, Archaic. venenose; infective, infectious, pestilent, contaminative, contagious, leprous, septic.
2. murderous, homicidal, slaughterous, bloodthirsty, sanguinary, internecine; brutal, violent, vicious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, hellish; ferocious, ruthless, savage, truculent, fierce, feral, ferine; terrible, harsh, severe, grim, dreadful, dire; unrelenting, relentless, remorseless, implacable, inexorable, unappeasable; pitiless, merciless, heartless, cruel, coldblooded, cold-hearted, hard-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted.
3. deathlike, deathly, pallid, wan, pale; livid, sallow, ashen, ghostly, white; cadaverous, corpse-like, skeletal, emaciated; gaunt, haggard, hollow-eyed.
4. excessive, inordinate, great, immoderate; overmuch, needless, undue, unnecessary, superabundant.
5. true, unerring, accurate, precise, correct, unfailing, on target, on the mark, Inf. in the bull's-eye.
6. dull, boring, tiresome, humdrum, tedious, uninteresting; fatiguing, wearisome, monotonous, Fr. en-nuyant; lackluster, dry, jejune; heavy, ponderous, irksome.
deaf, adj. 1. hard of hearing, unhearing, stone-deaf.
2. unmoved, unwavering, unswerving; insensitive, unconcerned, indifferent, inattentive, refusing to listen; unmindful, regardless, heedless,
deafen, v. make deaf; split the ears, stun with noise, din; drown out, muffle, stifle, hush, quiet,
deal, v. 1. distribute, dispense, mete out, allocate, allot, bestow, assign; apportion, share, divide, parcel out, dole out.
2. (usu. fol. by with or in) occupy oneself in, engaged in, practice, have to do with, have concern, concern; attend to, take care of, see to, reckon with.
3. trade, traffic, do business, buy and sell, exchange; bargain, barter, dicker, haggle, higgle, chaffer, palter; negotiate, arrange, come to terms.
4. deliver, administer, give, direct, cast, launch.
-n. 5. uncertain amount, quantity, lot, extent, degree.
6. Informal,
a. business transaction, dealings, arrangement, negotiation; pact, contract, compact, agreement, concordat,
b. bargain, price, Inf. buy.
dealer, n. wholesaler, jobber, merchant, salesman, trader, tradesman, Chiefly Brit, monger; retailer, shopkeeper; vendor, chandler, sutler, peddler, Brit. chapman, hawker, huckster, Chiefly Brit, costermonger; trafficker, middleman, (in stolen goods) Sl. fence.
dealings, n. 1. business, commerce, buying and selling, exchange, trade, traffic, jobbing, agiotage; barter, bargain, negotiation.
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