| DEA | a train or bus or taxi traveling empty |
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| DEA | a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way |
| DEA | a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather |
| DEA | the point in time at which something must be completed |
| DEA | the quality of being deadly |
| DEA | a situation in which no progress can be made |
| DEA | at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions |
| DEA | (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect |
| DEA | causing or capable of causing death |
| DEA | of an instrument of certain death |
| DEA | exceedingly harmful |
| DEA | (theology) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death |