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dead weight

synonyms for dead weight

On this page you'll find 92 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dead weight, such as: bar, block, blockade, burden, drag, and encumbrance.

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But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.

In the next few days they stowed some four thousand tons' dead weight into the Dimbula, and took her out from Liverpool.

The tackle, hooked on to the stern of the sunken yacht, was at first as so much dead weight on their hands.

But I tell you it was hard work getting him up, he was such a dead weight!

WE TENLYDA FARRINGTON KRAUS

Each man gazed on the other, trying to find some word that might be fitting, but each muted by the dead weight of half a century.

CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND

She went over with all the helpless, dead-weight violence of a man who has caught his toe on a drooping clothes line in the dark.

Marian had been like a sack of meal, a dead weight of plumpness under which he has literally staggered.

A dull dead weight settled down upon her like a suffocating pall.

Wickwire hung a dead weight in our arms, but we propped him on the jagged sill and scrambled after, any fashion.

Instead of the wind bearing a dead weight upon the face, it came now in furious gusts.

JOAN OF THE SWORD HANDS(AMUEL) R(UTHERFORD) CROCKETT

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OCTOBER 26, 1985