Checkmate
- n. A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
- n. The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, — which ends the game.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.