Checkmate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CHECKMATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• put into checkmate.
• defeat or frustrate totally
• 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.
• To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
• place an opponent\'s king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
• place the king of (one's opponent) in checkmate
NOUN:
• a final defeat or deadlock
• The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
• A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
• complete victory
• a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent\'s king
• a position in which a player's king is directly attacked by an opponent's piece or pawn and has no possible move to escape the check. The attacking player thus wins the game.
• said by a player to announce that the opponent's king is in the position of checkmate.
• winning position in which an opponent's king is under attack and unable to escape
EXCLAMATION:
• call made when placing an opponent's king in checkmate
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to arrest, thwart, or counter completely
• winning position in which an opponent\'s king is under attack and unable to escape

Words related to CHECKMATE

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Words that contain CHECKMATE

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How to use CHECKMATE in a sentence

• It was to be made with the queen, and must threaten checkmate.
• I knew that nothing would afford him a keener pleasure than to take away from me a woman I cared for, and that nothing would make him squirm more than for me to check-mate him.
• Copies can be multiplied with such amazing facility that, once the thief gets a decent start, it is almost hopeless to checkmate him.
• But then the cylindrical contours of the opposite king began to resemble Pawkins standing up and gasping ineffectually against check-mate, and Hapley decided to give up chess.
• I was ready to despair when a possible means of checkmate flashed into my mind.
• How serenely I moved toward the coveted checkmate, to find a castle towering in the way! I came in here to await young Montaigne.
• The two Knights, with the assistance of the King, cannot force checkmate, except in some very rare cases.
• Try as he would, he could not checkmate his opponent.
• The Black king cannot be left on any other square without a checkmate being possible.
• An expert at the game, she played one piece against another, skilfully avoiding the checkmate.
• It was so nearly a checkmate that de Crespigny went to the sideboard for the silver box of cigarettes, to offer her one and gain time for thought.
• The town gossips had supplied all the major facts of the Raymer-Grierson checkmate, and Broffin saw a great light.
• Barbara hurried to her car as fast as she could, anxious to get back to Ruth and to devise some other move to checkmate the traitors.
• To checkmate Dudley the Protestants were actively urging the suit of Eric of Sweden, when, in January 1561, the former made a bold bid for Spanish support.
• Chamberlain and his noble colleagues had anything but beds of roses whilst pursuing the diplomacy adopted to checkmate the Bond.
• Down fell the mate, he thought his fate, Checkmate, was close impending! XVI.

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