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check⋅mate

  [chek-meyt] noun, verb, -mat⋅ed, -mat⋅ing, interjection
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–noun
1. Also called mate. Chess.
a. an act or instance of maneuvering the opponent's king into a check from which it cannot escape, thus bringing the game to a victorious conclusion.
b. the position of the pieces when a king is checkmated.
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
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check·mate   (chěk'māt')   
tr.v.   check·mat·ed, check·mat·ing, check·mates

  1. To attack (a chess opponent's king) in such a manner that no escape or defense is possible, thus ending the game.

  2. To defeat completely.

n.  

    1. A move that constitutes an inescapable and indefensible attack on a chess opponent's king.

    2. The position or condition of a king so attacked.

  2. Utter defeat.

interj.  Used to declare the checkmate of an opponent's king in chess.

[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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Word Origin & History

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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