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Deadbeats
- noun - someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
Deadbolts
- noun - the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
Deadening
- 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"
- lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
- 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"
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters i
Deadheads
- 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
Deadhouse
- - A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.
Deadlatch
- - A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.
Deadliest
- adjective - (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
- exceedingly harmful
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins"
- of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"
Deadlight
- noun - a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather
Deadlines
- noun - the point in time at which something must be completed