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deadlocked

deadlocked is the simple past and past participle of deadlock.

Meaning of deadlock

Verb

deadlock (third-person singular simple present deadlocks, present participle deadlocking, simple past and past participle deadlocked)

  1. (intransitive) To cause or come to a deadlock.
    • A suspect was arrested on November 30 and charged with attempted murder. The evidence against him consisted of two jailhouse informers and an eyewitness who picked him out of a lineup after having identified a different man in an initial photo array. A jury ultimately convicted the suspect of...2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 6, in Illusion of Order
  2. (transitive) To bring to a state of deadlock.
    • Since we cannot solve this problem completely, it may sometimes be better to use explicit locks and risk deadlock if a thread exits unexpectedly. It may be better to have a deadlocked system than to have a corrupted system.2004, Scott Oaks, Henry Wong, Java Threads, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 123

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Questions about deadlocked

What is deadlocked the simple past and past participle of?
Deadlocked is the simple past and past participle of deadlock.

Words near deadlocked in the dictionary

  1. deadlinks
  2. deadload
  3. deadloads
  4. deadlock
  5. deadlockable
  6. deadlocked
  7. deadlocking
  8. deadlocks
  9. deadly
  10. deadly amanita
  11. deadly amanitas

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