Meaning

3 senses
  1. A weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized bent-over position.

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    a weight training exercise in which a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground

  2. Any lift performed without help or leverage.

  3. (broadly, figuratively)An effort made under discouraging conditions.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tom ate three pounds of meat after doing squats and deadlifts.

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Translations

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Origin

From dead + lift.

From dead + lift.

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Forms

plural: deadlifts
Singulardeadlift
Pluraldeadlifts

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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