- checkmate - complete victory
--1 is a kind of victory, triumph
- checkmate, mate - a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
--2 is a kind of chess move
Derived form: verb checkmate1 - checkmate, mate - a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- checkmate, mate - 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"
--1 is one way to beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun checkmate2
Sam cannot checkmate Sue