Dictionary Entry
checkmate
checkmate is a 9-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 24 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
- 2noun
A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4transitive verb
To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
- 5noun
a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
Synonyms
- 6noun
complete victory
- 7verb
place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
"Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"
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