checkmate

checkmate has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
• n.. A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
• 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.
• v. t.. To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
• n.. a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
• n.. complete victory
• v.. 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"