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dead bolt

dead bolt is the alternative form of deadbolt.

Meaning of deadbolt

Noun

deadbolt (plural deadbolts)

  1. The part of the lock which is moved when the key is engaged.
  2. A kind of lock in which the bolt (moving portion) is held in position by the cylinder rather than by a spring and so cannot be retracted except by turning the cylinder.
    Synonyms:
    deadlock

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Forms of dead bolt

Noun
pluraldead bolts
Verb
third-person singular presentdead bolts
present participledead bolting
past participledead bolted
pastdead bolted

Questions about dead bolt

What is dead bolt the alternative form of?
Dead bolt is the alternative form of deadbolt.

Words near dead bolt in the dictionary

  1. dead bells
  2. dead bird
  3. dead birds
  4. dead block
  5. dead blocks
  6. dead bolt
  7. dead bolted
  8. dead bolting
  9. dead bolts
  10. dead cake
  11. dead cakes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dead bolt (page history and authors); deadbolt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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