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adj. Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.

adj. Suffering a personal loss with no obvious chance to escape the loss.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of checkmate.

"Similarly in the modernday, we often use chess as a metaphor of a battle of wits, although I have yet to hear someone say that someone was "checkmated" as a circumlocution for "dead"."

checkmated    checkmates    checkmating   

vanquish    shell    beat    beat out    trounce   

stalemate   

terminate    thwart    defeat    mate   

transformation-scene    nail-tailed    election.it    ennobling    death