Definition of Deadlocked

1. Adjective. At a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions. "The two factions are deadlocked over fringe benefits"

Exact synonyms: Stalemated
Similar to: Obstructed

Definition of Deadlocked

1. Verb. (past of deadlock) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deadlocked

1. deadlock [v] - See also: deadlock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadlocked

deadlifts
deadlight
deadlights
deadlihood
deadline
deadlined
deadlines
deadliness
deadlinesses
deadlining
deadlink
deadlinked
deadlinking
deadlinks
deadlock
deadlocked (current term)
deadlocking
deadlocks
deadly
deadly agaric
deadly embrace
deadly embraces
deadly nightshade
deadly nightshades
deadly sin
deadly sins
deadman
deadman's brake
deadman's brakes
deadmen

Literary usage of Deadlocked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great War: A Pictorial History of the 1914-1919 Fight for Freedom and by Thomas Herbert Russell, William Dunseath Eaton (1919)
"... Battle Line—Germans Face French and British in the Aisne Valley and Fight for Weeks—Mighty Armies deadlocked After a Desperate and Bloody Struggle. ..."

2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"10 the situation here, too, has again been deadlocked, as all along the rest of the western front. On the Austro-Italian front the first general Italian ..."

3. Readings on American State Government by Paul Samuel Reinsch (1911)
"... is a list of the cases of deadlocked legislatures since 1891, which is given by Dr. George H. Haynes in "The Election of Senators," published recently. ..."

4. Law and Order in Industry: Five Years' Experience by Julius Henry Cohen (1916)
"As this involved a question of interpretation which could be passed upon finally only by the Board of Arbitration, it left but 9 actually deadlocked cases. ..."

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