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
- 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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