Impasse - English meaning

noun

A position in which a player's king is directly attacked by an opponent's piece or pawn and has no possible move to escape the check. the attacking player thus wins the game.

Usage examples:

To move her bishop to strike his knight would leave the king open on two sides without escape, a ch…

verb

Put into checkmate.

Usage examples:

I had one middle-aged student who stubbornly refused to castle, saying that his king would be trapp…

noun

A winning position in chess in which you have put the other player's king under a direct attack from which it cannot escape

Usage examples:

My dad can always checkmate me within 20 moves., the goal is to checkmate an opponent's king., the …

noun

A situation, typically one involving opposing parties, in which no progress can be made.

Usage examples:

An attempt to break the deadlock

verb

Cause (a situation or opposing parties) to come to a point where no progress can be made because of fundamental disagreement.

Usage examples:

The meeting is deadlocked

verb

Bring or come to an abrupt stop.

Usage examples:

There is growing pressure to halt the bloodshed

noun

A suspension of movement or activity, typically a temporary one.

Usage examples:

A halt in production

adjective

(of a person) having a physical disability.

Usage examples:

If a man were halt or hunch'd

noun

A situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible.

Usage examples:

The war had again reached stalemate

verb

Bring to or cause to reach stalemate.

Usage examples:

The group played a key role in stalemating the negotiations

noun

A situation in which nothing can change or no action can be taken

Usage examples:

[ u ] stalemate in congress over education reform has made voters angry., [ c ] the arrival of fres…

noun

A situation in which neither side has won a competition or argument, or an occasion when someone prevents officials from acting, usually by threatening violence

Usage examples:

The battle of wills between teacher and student was a standoff., she locked herself in the house, b…

noun

A situation in which agreement in an argument does not seem possible

Usage examples:

Standoff between sb and sb the standoff between potential buyers and sellers has effects throughout…

noun

A situation or condition in which there is no movement or activity at all.

Usage examples:

The traffic came to a standstill

noun

A condition in which all movement or activity has stopped

Usage examples:

Bad weather brought construction to a standstill., the truck came to a standstill in the muddy field.

noun

A situation in which all movement or activity has stopped

Usage examples:

Be at a standstill labour negotiations are almost at a standstill., bring sth to a standstill the b…

verb

(of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen.

Usage examples:

His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun

noun

A cessation of movement or operation.

Usage examples:

All business came to a stop

verb

Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense

noun

An instance of movement, activity, or supply stopping or being stopped.

Usage examples:

A power stoppage