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围攻,击破,挫折围擒,阻止,大败,将死

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Checkmate \Check"mate\, n. [F. ['e]chec et mat, fr. Per. sh[=a]h
   m[=a]t ceckmate, lit., the king is dead, fr. Ar. m[=a]ta he
   died, is dead. The king, when made prisoner, or checkmated,
   is assumed to be dead, and the game is finished. See
   {Chess}.]
   1. The position in the game of chess when a king is in check
      and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.

   2. A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.

Checkmate \Check"mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Checkmated}; p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Checkmating}.]
   1. (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.

   2. To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.

            To checkmate and control my just demands. --Ford.

资料来源 : WordNet®

checkmate
     n 1: complete victory
     2: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible
        attack on the opponent's king [syn: {mate}]
     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" [syn: {mate}]