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stalemating

stalemating is the present participle and gerund of stalemate.

Meaning of stalemate

Verb

stalemate (third-person singular simple present stalemates, present participle stalemating, simple past and past participle stalemated)

  1. (transitive) To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved.
    • The North Korean nuclear issue, stalemated for the past three years, is now back in play again—not before time.2012 February 29, Aidan Foster-Carter, “North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2025

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Questions about stalemating

What is stalemating the present participle and gerund of?
Stalemating is the present participle and gerund of stalemate.

Words near stalemating in the dictionary

  1. stalely
  2. stalemate
  3. stalemated
  4. stalemater
  5. stalemates
  6. stalemating
  7. staleness
  8. stalenesses
  9. staler
  10. stales
  11. stalest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stalemating (page history and authors); stalemate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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