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Associations of "Dead end" (30 Words)
casualty | Someone injured or killed in an accident. He went to casualty to have a cut stitched. |
closing | The act of closing something. The closing stages of the election. |
completion | The action or process of completing or finishing something. Funds for the completion of the new building. |
culmination | (astronomy) a heavenly body’s highest celestial point above an observer’s horizon. The deal marked the culmination of years of negotiation. |
decease | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. He deceased at his palace of Croydon. |
deceased | The recently dead person in question. He is deceased. |
demise | The end or failure of an enterprise or institution. Mr Grisenthwaite s tragic demise. |
destination | The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey. Delft is an ideal destination for a relaxing weekend. |
die | A cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male external screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods. Rhubarb dies back to a crown of buds each winter. |
done | Socially acceptable. Therapy was not the done thing then. |
doom | Pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law. Everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it. |
dying | On the point of death. The making of valves is a dying art. |
epilogue | A short passage added at the end of a literary work. The epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters. |
expiry | The end of a fixed period of time. An expiry date. |
final | The final approach of an aircraft to the runway it will be landing on. The decision of the judging panel is final. |
finale | The temporal end; the concluding time. The finale of Beethoven s Ninth Symphony. |
finis | The end (printed at the end of a book or shown at the end of a film). The market was up at the finish. |
intestacy | The situation of being or dying without a legally valid will. |
intestate | Not having made a will before one dies. He died intestate. |
last | The last or lowest in an ordering or series. He was dead having refused morphia to the last. |
misadventure | Death caused by a person accidentally while performing a legal act without negligence or intent to harm. The coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure. |
moribund | Being on the point of death; breathing your last. On examination she was moribund and dehydrated. |
mortuary | Relating to burial or tombs. A mortuary temple. |
perish | Die, especially in a violent or sudden way. An abandoned tyre whose rubber had perished. |
peroration | A flowery and highly rhetorical oration. He again invoked the theme in an emotional peroration. |
quietus | Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb. |
rip | The act of rending or ripping or splitting something. Countries ripped apart by fighting. |
suffocation | Difficulty in breathing. Suffocation by smoke inhalation. |
windup | A concluding action. Windup toys. |
wrought | Made or fashioned in the specified way. Well wrought pop music. |