The Collaborative International Dictionary
Checkmate \Check"mate\ (-m[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Checkmated; p. pr. & vb. n. Checkmating.]
(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.
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To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
To checkmate and control my just demands.
--Ford.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of checkmate English)
Usage examples of "checkmating".
The light in his eyes, which would have done a checkmating chessplayer justice, was a far more accurate indicator of how he operated.
You remained with me, cannily checkmating my moves when you could, and seeking always to have your men kill me.
I was rapidly turning over in my mind what we had just overheard and trying to plan some way of checkmating their next move.
The administration of justice to-day is not the swift judgment of honest men upon a criminal act, but a clever game between judge and lawyer, in which the action of the jury is discounted entirely and the moves are made with a view to checkmating justice, not in the trial courtroom, but before the appellate tribunal two or three years later.