stalemate
Noun
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Noun
stalemate (plural stalemates)
- (chess) The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw.
- Any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but does not involve any personal loss.
- French: pat
- German: Patt, Pattstellung
- Italian: stallo
- Portuguese: afogamento
- Russian: пат
- Spanish: ahogado
- French: impasse
- German: Stillstand, Stocken, verfahrene Lage, festgefahrene Lage, Pattsituation, Sackgasse
- Italian: punto morto, vicolo cieco, impasse, stallo
- Portuguese: beco sem saída, impasse
- Russian: тупи́к
- Spanish: punto muerto, estancamiento
stalemate (stalemates, present participle stalemating; past and past participle stalemated)
- (chess, transitive) To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves.
- (transitive, figuratively) To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved.
- 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes
- The North Korean nuclear issue, stalemated for the past three years, is now back in play again - not before time.
- 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes
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