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Checkmate   /tʃˈɛkmˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Checkmate  v. t.  (past & past part. checkmated; pres. part. checkmating)  
1.
(Chess) 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.
2.
To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart. "To checkmate and control my just demands."


noun
Checkmate  n.  
1.
The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, which ends the game.
2.
A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.





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"Checkmate" Quotes from Famous Books



... a sort of checkmate, and Lionel stood looking at the servant—as if the man could telegraph some impossible aerial message to his master to bring ...
— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood
... majesty!" said Gardiner as he entered, to the king, who just then was sitting with the queen at the chess-board. With frowning brow and compressed lips he looked over the game, which stood unfavorable for him, and threatened him with a speedy checkmate. ...
— Henry VIII And His Court • Louise Muhlbach
... sufficiently powerful counteroffensive to strike doubt into the confident expectations of the armies of the Central Powers, then the strategical plan had reached a check, which might or might not be a checkmate, as the fortunes of war might determine. If, on the other hand, the stand made by the Allies at this point should prove ineffective, and if the counteroffensive should reveal that the German hosts had been able to establish impregnable defenses as they marched, ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... was foreseen the fleet we usually have in Chinese waters became indispensable, not merely, as before, to protect our trade and our missionaries in China, but to checkmate the Spanish fleet, which otherwise held San Francisco and the whole Pacific coast at its mercy. When war was declared our fleet was necessarily ordered out of neutral ports. Then it had to go to Manila or go home. If it went home, it left the whole Pacific ...
— Problems of Expansion - As Considered In Papers and Addresses • Whitelaw Reid
... my eyelids I constructed chess-boards and played both sides of long games through to checkmate. But when I had become expert at this visualized game of memory the exercise palled on me. Exercise it was, for there could be no real contest when the same player played both sides. I tried, and tried vainly, to split my personality into two personalities and to pit one against the other. ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London


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