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Antonyms for stalemate

Grammar : Noun
Spell : steyl-meyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsteɪlˌmeɪt


Definition of stalemate

Origin :
  • 1765, in chess, from stale "stalemate" (early 15c.) + mate (n.2) "checkmate." Middle English stale is probably from Anglo-French estale "standstill" (see stall (n.2)). A misnomer, because a stale is not a mate. "In England from the 17th c. to the beginning of the 19th c. the player who received stalemate won the game" [OED]. Figurative sense is recorded from 1885.
  • noun deadlock
Example sentences :
  • He seems to have reached a psychological impasse or stalemate.
  • Extract from : « A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis » by Melvin Powers
  • "But it looks as though the best we can do is to stalemate," Bradley argued.
  • Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • Although, it is rather near a stalemate for us both, isn't it?
  • Extract from : « The Thing from the Lake » by Eleanor M. Ingram
  • However, at least for the moment, he had reached a stalemate.
  • Extract from : « Trading Jeff and his Dog » by James Arthur Kjelgaard
  • "But it looks as though the best we can do is a stalemate," Bradley argued.
  • Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith
  • They might try to stalemate us by repeating their threat, with our guns over Rahn.
  • Extract from : « The Fifth-Dimension Tube » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • What is needed, therefore, is some hint or lead which will break this stalemate.
  • Extract from : « Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 » by Robert F. Heizer
  • As soon as the nomads had obtained cover however, it was a stalemate.
  • Extract from : « The Year When Stardust Fell » by Raymond F. Jones
  • If necessary, I will end the stalemate with a shot and take my chances with the knife.
  • Extract from : « The Egyptian Cat Mystery » by Harold Leland Goodwin
  • The weary struggle was evidently about to close in a stalemate.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) » by John Holland Rose

Synonyms for stalemate

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