Definition of Stalemating

1. Verb. (present participle of stalemate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stalemating

1. stalemate [v] - See also: stalemate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stalemating

stalagmitic
stalagmitical
stalagmitically
stalagmometer
stalags
stalder
stalderite
stalders
stale metaphor
staled
stalely
stalemate
stalemated
stalemates
stalemating (current term)
staleness
stalenesses
staler
stales
stalest
staling
stalinise
stalinize
stalk
stalk-eyed
stalk of epiglottis
stalkable
stalked
stalked hydatid

Literary usage of Stalemating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"Walpole's system, inherited from Stanhope, cut across this ; it aimed, not at fighting, but at stalemating, the Bourbon solidarity by maintaining the ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1908)
"Walpole's system, inherited from Stanhope, cut across this ; it aimed, not at fighting, but at stalemating, the Bourbon solidarity by maintaining the ..."

3. From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan by Judith Sunderland (2002)
"... the point the meeting was being negotiated, had succeeded remarkably well in stalemating the government's effort to shut down the movement within China. ..."

4. Negotiating While Fighting: The Diary of Admiral C. Turner Joy at the Korean by Charles Turner Joy, Allan E. Goodman (1978)
"stalemating the enemy was, therefore, essential to keeping a limited war limited and hastening, Truman believed, fruitful negotiations. ..."

5. Geschichten Aus Der Tonne: Von Theodor Storm; Ed. by Theodor Storm (1905)
"... EXERCISES ON „stalemating S>au8." I. Based on page 43, line f, to page 44, line 21. 1. ..."

6. The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the by Howard Staunton, R. F. Green (1890)
"And it is obvious that White cannot avoid the check without stalemating his adversary. Diagram 61. BLACK. Diagram 62. BLACK. L Diagram 62. ..."

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