Definitions
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- adjective chess Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
- adjective figuratively Suffering a personal loss with no obvious chance to escape the loss.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
checkmate .
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Examples
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Similarly in the modernday, we often use chess as a metaphor of a battle of wits, although I have yet to hear someone say that someone was "checkmated" as a circumlocution for "dead".
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Similarly in the modernday, we often use chess as a metaphor of a battle of wits, although I have yet to hear someone say that someone was "checkmated" as a circumlocution for "dead".
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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If the player cannot resort to either of these tactics to save his king he is "checkmated" and loses the game.
Entertainments for Home, Church and School Frederica Seeger
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You and I have these little feuds, neither of us gains any ground at all, just little strokes of the egos as we think to ourselves we "checkmated" the other.
Metro Times 2009
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But who will be checkmated in the final? showdown between these two men?
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While unions have been checkmated on card check, they're ahead in another game — labor board appointment power — with all the cards they need.
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And to think that no one checkmated these people or try to stop this act was beyond me.
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China has also in a sense checkmated America and its Asian allies, South Korea and Japan, by providing, through its proxy, Pakistan, nuclear weapons technology to North Korea.
Jamyang Norbu: Who Created Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal? Jamyang Norbu 2011
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And to think that no one checkmated these people or try to stop this act was beyond me.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Mamie refused to be checkmated and turned to Harry for advice.
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