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stalematesnounpl. of stalemate a point in a struggle where neither side is capable of winning or willing to give ina new negotiator finally got both sides past the stalemate deadlocks, gridlocks, halts, impasses, logjams, Mexican standoffs, standoffs, standstills dead endsbinds, bottlenecks, corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, jams, morasses, pickles, pinches, plights, predicaments, quagmires, quandaries, spotsdifficultiesproblems a situation in which neither participant in a contest, competition, or struggle comes out ahead of the otherafter playing chess for 16 hours, we ended the game in a stalemate |