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CHECKMATE is validvalid
to attack a chess king in a way that cannot be countered [v CHECKMATED, CHECKMATES, CHECKMATING]
in chess, to put (a player's king) in checkmate; to defeat or render incapable of counterattack [v CHECKMATED, CHECKMATING, CHECKMATES]