Dead-end and Protract

Dead-end

Dead-end verb - To come to an end.
Usage example: after several fruitless years, the research seems to have simply dead-ended

Protract is an antonym for dead-end.

Protract

Protract verb - To make longer.

Dead-end is an antonym for protract.

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