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Checkmate

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
checkmate/tʃekˈmeɪt/

▶noun

1 Chess a position of check from which a king cannot escape.

2 a final defeat or deadlock.

▶verb

1 Chess put into checkmate.

2 defeat or frustrate totally.

– origin ME: from OFr. eschec mat, from Arab. šāh māta, from Pers. šāh māt ‘the king is dead’.

'Checkmate' also found in these Oxford entries:

checkmate - chess - king - mate - selfmate - smothered mate

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