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vb. (context idiomatic English) to have no purpose, to result in nothing.
Usage examples of "lead nowhere".
How we found out was like this: two days after we'd arrived in the camp, those of us younger, fitter men were roused at dawn, then marched off, supposedly to build a road, a road, which at that time seemed to lead nowhere.
At her office Deborah pursued avenues she knew would lead nowhere, carefully laying a false trail.
Part of the problem was that it kept falling into impossible shapes, configurations that seemed to lead nowhere, dead-end reasonings.
True, there was every chance it would lead nowhere: it was im.
Dale said, having noticed or not, and swerved into a long, overgrown drive, hedged with wildflowers and tall grasses, which appeared to lead nowhere except into a great expanse of meadow and banks of waist-high flowers.
They discovered that the wall, which had looked so sheer from across the vale, was lined by many small ledges and walkways, but all of these seemed to lead nowhere and after a half hour of stretching up to reach the next handhold and inching their way along impossibly narrow ledges, they found that they had really made very little progress.
We can hardly afford to waste our scanty resources on opening Gates and chasing down feint trails that lead nowhere.