![]() (Chess) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape. The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, - which ends the game. Google Ngram registers “check and mate” at an average 0.00000006 incidence level since circ 1850, but I don't know how significant this number is. Definition of checkmate in the dictionary. A complete check utter defeat or overthrow. However, I was unable to find “check and mate” in any of Cambridge, Oxford, and Merriam-Webster English dictionary, though they all register “checkmate.” Kill people and yet they’re afraid to swim?” Check and mate!įrom the definition of ‘checkmate” in Cambridge English Dictionary, "noun (2) a situation in which someone has been defeated or a plan cannot develop or continue", it is obvious that “check and mate” here means Jones’s answer was the finish blow that shut Morgan’s mouth up. Were there in Britain?” Jones answered, “How many great white sharks Synonyms for CHECKMATE: frustrate, thwart, baffle, defeat, hamper, stop, prevent, foil Antonyms of CHECKMATE: forward, advance, promote, encourage, assist, aid. ![]() ![]() When Morgan managed to work in a question like, “How many gun murders The term checkmate is, according to the Barnhart Etymological Dictionary, an alteration of the Farsi phrase shh mt which means, literally, the King is helpless. I found the expression “Check and mate!” in the following sentence describing furious exchange of words between CNN host Piers Morgan and rightwing radio host and anti-gun-control propagandist Alex Jones on gun-control in the video titled “Shoots off his mouth on Piers Morgan” in Time magazine’s (Jan 8) Entertainment Section. ![]()
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