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impassesnounpl. of impasse a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give inin their bitter custody battle, the divorcing couple are at a total impasse deadlocks, gridlocks, halts, logjams, Mexican standoffs, stalemates, standoffs, standstills dead endsbinds, bottlenecks, corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, jams, morasses, pickles, pinches, plights, predicaments, quagmires, quandaries, spotsdifficultiesproblems a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapethe impossible impasse faced by those who opposed the war but did not want to seem disloyal to the troops binds, boxes, catch-22's(or catch-22s), corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, jackpots(chiefly West), jams, mires, pickles, predicaments, quagmires, rabbit holes, rattraps, spots, sticky wickets, swamps difficulties, nodeshot waters, soupspinches, plights, quandaries, scrapes, troublesdeadlocks, halts, logjams, stalemates, standstillsclutches, crises, crossroads, emergencies, exigencies, junctures, straits kettles of fish |