checkmate

Nouns

  • (n) complete victory
  • (n) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king mate,

Verbs

  • (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
    mate,

Synonyms

mate

Words of close approximity