Word
Checkmate
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
check-mate
Definition
- 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. t. - 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. t. - To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
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