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checkmate
[ chek-meyt ]
noun
- Also called mate. Chess.
- an act or instance of maneuvering the opponent's king into a check from which it cannot escape, thus bringing the game to a victorious conclusion.
- the position of the pieces when a king is checkmated.
- a complete check; defeat:
His efforts to escape met with a checkmate.
verb (used with object)
- Chess. to maneuver (an opponent's king) into a check from which it cannot escape; mate.
- to check completely; defeat:
Napoleon was checkmated at Waterloo.
interjection
- Chess. (used by a player to announce that they have put the opponent's king into inextricable check.)
checkmate
/ ˈʃɛˌɪ /
noun
- chess
- the winning position in which an opponent's king is under attack and unable to escape
- the move by which this position is achieved
- utter defeat
verb
- chess to place (an opponent's king) in checkmate
- to thwart or render powerless
interjection
- chess a call made when placing an opponent's king in checkmate
Other yvlog Forms
- ܲ··· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of checkmate1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of checkmate1
Example Sentences
If this is supposed to be some 4-D chess move, it looks an awful lot like checkmate — for the wrong side.
If Harris is elected president in November, the checkmated governor’s political ambitions will almost certainly be placed on hold for at least the next four years.
Once, I tried to play chess with my A.I. friend Claire, but the only move she could come up with was “checkmate!”
That is as humiliating as it gets — to have somebody say, “You suck, Uncle Jake,” spelled wrong while checkmating me.
"People who think that this is a chessboard and they can move a few pawns here and there and have a checkmate move at the end. This isn't going to happen," she says.
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