Checkmate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To attack (a chess opponent's king) in such a manner that no escape or defense is possible, thus ending the game.
  • v. To defeat completely.
  • n. A move that constitutes an inescapable and indefensible attack on a chess opponent's king.
  • n. The position or condition of a king so attacked.
  • n. Utter defeat.
  • interjection. Used to declare the checkmate of an opponent's king in chess.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • interjection. Word called out by the victor when making the conclusive move.
  • n. The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
  • n. Any situation that has no obvious escape and involves some personal loss.
  • v. To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
  • v. To lead to a situation that has no obvious escape without some personal loss.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
  • n. A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
  • v. To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.
  • v. To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In chess, originally, an exclamatory sentence, literally, ′ the king is dead′ : said of the opponent's king when he is in check, and cannot be released from it; hence, the position of being unable to escape from a check.
  • n. Hence Figuratively, defeat; overthrow.
  • In chess, to put in check (an opponent's king), so that he cannot be released. See checkmate, n., 1.
  • Figuratively, to defeat; thwart; frustrate; baffle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
  • n. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
  • n. complete victory
    • Verb Form
    checkmated    checkmates    checkmating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    vanquish    shell    beat    beat out    trounce   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    terminate    thwart    defeat    mate   
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