a state in which progress is impossible, as in a dispute, produced by the counteraction of opposing forces; standstill; stalemate: The union and management reached a deadlock over fringe benefits.
Definition: 2
deadbolt.
Definition: 3
a maximum-security cell for the solitary confinement of a prisoner.
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to bring or come to a deadlock.
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a state of affairs in which further action between two opposing forces is impossible; stalemate