The police officer pointed his pistol at the criminal, who, in turn, held his pistol directly pointed at the officer. Neither had the advantage, the position was a stalemate.
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Stalemate
//ˈsteɪlmeɪt//
Synonyms for "stalemate" (72 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (36)
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Translations
92 translations across 46 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- رَدْب noun (chess term)
- طَرِيق مَسْدُود noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- مَأْزِق noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Armenian
2 entries- պատ noun (chess term)
- պատ noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Belarusian
1 entries- пат noun (chess term)
Bulgarian
2 entries- безизхо́дица noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- пат noun (chess term)
Catalan
1 entries- taules noun (chess term)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 僵局 noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- 困斃 /困毙 noun (chess term)
- 對峙 /对峙 noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- 欠行 noun (chess term)
Czech
1 entries- pat noun (chess term)
Danish
1 entries- pat noun (chess term)
Dutch
2 entries- pat noun (chess term)
- patstelling noun (chess term)
Esperanto
1 entries- pato noun (chess term)
Estonian
2 entries- patiseis noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- patt noun (chess term)
Finnish
2 entries- patti noun (chess term)
- pattitilanne noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
French
2 entries- impasse noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- pat noun (chess term)
Georgian
1 entries- ფათი noun (chess term)
German
4 entries- Patt noun (chess term)
- Pattsituation noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- Pattstellung noun (chess term)
- Sackgasse noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Greek
3 entries- αδιέξοδο noun (chess term)
- αδιέξοδο noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- πατ noun (chess term)
Hindu
1 entries- ज़िच noun (chess term)
Hungarian
3 entries- patt noun (chess term)
- patthelyzet noun (chess term)
- patthelyzet noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Icelandic
1 entries- patt noun (chess term)
Ido
1 entries- pato noun (chess term)
Irish
1 entries- leamhsháinn noun (chess term)
Italian
4 entries- impasse noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- punto morto noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- stallo noun (chess term)
- stallo noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Japanese
2 entries- ステイルメイト noun (chess term)
- 行き詰り noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Kazakh
1 entries- пат noun (chess term)
Korean
2 entries- 교착상태 noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- 스테일메이트 noun (chess term)
Latin
2 entries- matum stabilis noun (chess term)
- stancamentum noun (chess term)
Latvian
1 entries- pats noun (chess term)
Lithuanian
1 entries- patas noun (chess term)
Macedonian
2 entries- пат noun (chess term)
- ќор-сока́к noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Māori
1 entries- whakamāraritanga noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- patt noun (chess term)
Persian
1 entries- پات noun (chess term)
Polish
4 entries- impas noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- pat noun (chess term)
- pat noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- sytuacja patowa noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Portuguese
3 entries- afogamento noun (chess term)
- beco sem saída noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- impasse noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Romanian
1 entries- pat noun (chess term)
Russian
4 entries- безвы́ходное положе́ние noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- пат noun (chess term)
- пат noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- тупи́к noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pȁt noun (chess term)
- па̏т noun (chess term)
Slovak
1 entries- pat noun (chess term)
Slovene
1 entries- pat noun (chess term)
Spanish
4 entries- ahogado noun (chess term)
- estancamiento noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- punto muerto noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- rey afogado noun (chess term)
Swedish
1 entries- patt noun (chess term)
Telugu
1 entries- ప్రతిష్టంభన noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
Turkish
1 entries- pat noun (chess term)
Ukrainian
1 entries- пат noun (chess term)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hết nước đi noun (chess term)
Welsh
2 entries- anghytundeb llwyr noun (blocked situation without personal loss)
- methmat noun (chess term)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
We've reached a stalemate in our relationship.
Source: tatoeba (1915799)
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal".
Source: tatoeba (5803489)
The investigation was pretty much at a stalemate.
Source: tatoeba (9682587)
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