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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
impasse /amˈpɑːs, ˈampɑːs/

▶noun a deadlock.

– origin C19: from Fr., from im- (expressing negation) + the stem of passer ‘to pass’.

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