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say it: DED-lahkt
deadlocked is an adjective meaning "at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions". It carries one recorded sense.
at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions
“the chess game ended with white stalemated”
“the two factions are deadlocked over fringe benefits”
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deadlocked come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.