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check⋅mate
[chek-meyt] 
noun, verb, -mat⋅ed, -mat⋅ing, interjection –noun
| 1. | Also called mate. Chess.
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| 2. | a complete check; defeat: His efforts to escape met with a checkmate. |
–verb (used with object)
| 3. | Chess. to maneuver (an opponent's king) into a check from which it cannot escape; mate. |
| 4. | to check completely; defeat: Napoleon was checkmated at Waterloo. |
–interjection
| 5. | Chess. (used by a player to announce that he or she has put the opponent's king into inextricable check.) |
Origin:
1300–50; ME chek mat(e) < MF escec mat < Ar shāh māt < Pers: lit., the king (is) checked, nonplussed
1300–50; ME chek mat(e) < MF escec mat < Ar shāh māt < Pers: lit., the king (is) checked, nonplussed
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| check·mate (chěk'māt') tr.v. check·mat·ed, check·mat·ing, check·mates
[Middle English chekmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic šāh māt, the king is dead : šāh, king (from Persian shāh; see shah) + māt, died (from earlier māta, to die; see mwt in Semitic roots).] |
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Checkmate
Check"mate\, n. [F. ['e]chec et mat, fr. Per. sh[=a]h m[=a]t ceckmate, lit., the king is dead, fr. Ar. m[=a]ta he died, is dead. The king, when made prisoner, or checkmated, is assumed to be dead, and the game is finished. See Chess.]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.Checkmate
Check"mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Checkmated; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. --Ford.
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Language Translation for : Checkmate
Spanish:
jaque mate,
German:
das Schachmatt,
Japanese:
王手詰め
checkmate
c.1346, from O.Fr. eschec mat, ult. from Pers. shah mat, lit. "the king is left helpless," from shah "king" + mat "he is dead."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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