"tenere in scacco" meaning in Italian

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  "pos": "verb",
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        "(chess) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tenere, in, scacco."
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          "ref": "2024 December 9, The Editorial Board, “Fermato Luigi Mangione, sospetto killer del Ceo Thompson. Il “manifesto”: “Questi parassiti se la sono cercata” [Luigi Mangione, suspected killer of CEO Thompson, arrested. The \"manifesto\": \"Those parasites were asking for it\"]”, in il Fatto Quotidiano:",
          "text": "Proprio come Theodore Kaczynski, il matematico pluriassassino di Harvard soprannominato Unabomber che negli anni Novanta tenne in scacco l’America con una catena di pacchi bomba e che Luigi aveva dimostrato di ammirare mettendo il like sui suoi scritti nei social.",
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        "to prevent (someone) from taking action; to paralyze"
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          "ref": "2024 December 9, The Editorial Board, “Fermato Luigi Mangione, sospetto killer del Ceo Thompson. Il “manifesto”: “Questi parassiti se la sono cercata” [Luigi Mangione, suspected killer of CEO Thompson, arrested. The \"manifesto\": \"Those parasites were asking for it\"]”, in il Fatto Quotidiano:",
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  "word": "tenere in scacco"
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