checkmate 的 3 个定义
- Also called mate. Chess. an act or instance of maneuvering the opponent's king into a check from which it cannot escape, thus bringing the game to a victorious conclusion.the position of the pieces when a king is checkmated.
- a complete check; defeat: His efforts to escape met with a checkmate.
check·mat·ed, check·mat·ing.
- Chess. to maneuver into a check from which it cannot escape; mate.
- to check completely; defeat: Napoleon was checkmated at Waterloo.
- Chess.
checkmate 近义词
countermove
更多checkmate例句
- Because when it comes to moving against the virus, we’re a long way from checkmate.
- Under these circumstances many devices were resorted to to checkmate their political moves.
- Once a case is made that a leak might be imminent, it is checkmate: the agent is thwarted.
- Somebody knew exactly what was going on, somebody was at work to checkmate the dark design.
- You and I will try to checkmate that pack if there is anything uncanny in it.
- The ruffian was counting confidently on having things his own way, and Matt was wondering how he could checkmate him.
- Victory for the South became immediately impossible, no matter how long the final checkmate might be delayed.
- If the Austrian minister could accomplish this, he could thereby checkmate Prussian ambitions for leadership in Germany.