Crossword-Solution: CHECKMATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Checkmate | n. | The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game. |
| Checkmate | n. | A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow. |
| Checkmate | 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. |
| Checkmate | v. t. | To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CHECKMATE | anagram | MATECHECK |
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Sentences with CHECKMATE (5)
And though, in the end, her king was ignominiously trapped with not an unguarded square upon which to set his poor distracted foot, the memory of those blissful minutes when she had made Bertram “stare” more than paid for the final checkmate.
France was quite ready to do so in the hope of strengthening her position in Indo-China, and with nothing more than the murder of a missionary in Kuangsi as a pretext she put a body of troops in the field large enough to enable her to checkmate England, or humiliate China as the exigencies of the occasion, and her own interests, might demand.
Vulgar chess-players have to play their game out; nothing short of the brutality of an actual checkmate satisfies their dull apprehensions.
The order interfering with the Navy Department was designed to checkmate the titular head of the department.
Immediately he got in touch with Valdez and a few of his party, and decided on a bold counterstroke that, if successful, would oppose a checkmate to the governor’s check and would also make unnecessary the unloosing of the State prisoners on the devoted heads of the people.
Quotes with CHECKMATE (3)
Arianne had her feet up on the table, wearing a striped conductor's cap. Arriane was fixated on the game. A chocolate cigar bobbed between her lips as she contemplated her next move. Roland was giving Arianne the hawk eye." Checkmate, bitch," Arianne said triumphantly, knocking over Roland's king.
Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.
Whoever is messing with my daughter, messing with my home, will be sorry they chose to play this game. I’ll be screaming checkmate before they even realise I moved my pawns…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1963–2025).