What are the antonyms for CHECKMATE?
- help, cultivate, lose, capitulate, retreat, aid, fly, resign, fail, yield, fall, support, submit, assist, surrender, succumb, promote, nurture, give up, abet, cede, allow, retire, encourage, forfeit.
Synonyms for CHECKMATE
- Bitted,
- Juke,
- overmasters,
- close,
- zap,
- predicament,
- obstruction,
- shell,
- overmastering,
- chessboard,
- rein in,
- overpower,
- cut short,
- winning,
- cause setback,
- decease,
- expire,
- holds back,
- Creaming,
- in action,
- held down,
- kept back,
- get the better of,
- victory,
- bollixing,
- foil,
- bring to an end; leave unfinished,
- chess,
- Counterplotted,
- accomplishment,
- shuffle off,
- keeps back,
- shakes off,
- stop,
- bollixed,
- keeping back,
- Repulsing,
- castle,
- counter,
- take aback,
- bottlenecked,
- cessation,
- gain,
- inhibits,
- Trashed,
- Non-performance,
- king,
- humble,
- Paused,
- master,
- baffle,
- queen,
- stop cold,
- pass on,
- prevails,
- exit,
- slacken pace,
- held in,
- beat out,
- discomfit,
- crush,
- outplay,
- outwitting,
- give the run-around,
- stop dead,
- total loss,
- playing for time,
- checkmate,
- buffalo,
- stymie,
- break short,
- defeat,
- unsuccessfulness,
- buffaloed,
- cast down,
- trounce,
- terminate,
- upset apple cart,
- over-ride,
- neutralize,
- pawn,
- reins in,
- triumph,
- rook,
- finale,
- cease,
- take wind out of sails,
- culminate,
- nonsuccess,
- quandary,
- balk,
- Counterplotting,
- win,
- deadlock,
- skunked,
- subdue,
- death,
- stop short,
- Creamed,
- terminal,
- washout,
- stump,
- overturn,
- finis,
- frustrate,
- give the slip,
- play for time,
- throw for loop,
- out wit,
- outwit,
- finalize,
- predicaments,
- nonfeasance,
- taking aback,
- knight,
- slowed down,
- knockout,
- get around,
- upset the apple cart,
- insolvency,
- shake off,
- give the runaround,
- beat,
- inadequacy,
- overcome,
- windup,
- nonperformance,
- put end to,
- run circles around,
- grand master,
- Subdual,
- holding in,
- whip,
- wrap up,
- takes aback,
- loser,
- worsted,
- mate,
- man,
- bottlenecking,
- culmination,
- sinking ship,
- implosion,
- skunking,
- up set,
- demise,
- Non-feasance,
- Blanking,
- withhold,
- closing,
- ending,
- mastery,
- overthrow,
- predominate,
- counter-plot,
- thwart,
- halt,
- die,
- squash,
- beat down,
- keep back,
- cap,
- plays for time,
- undo,
- faux pas,
- pass away,
- expiration,
- subjection,
- slow down,
- reined in,
- vanquish,
- failings,
- completion,
- casting down,
- overmastered,
- in actions,
- failure,
- over turn,
- Buffaloes,
- hinder,
- bollix,
- cross,
- corner,
- conquer,
- hold in,
- dead stop,
- capture,
- put stop to,
- give the run around,
- success,
- hang up,
- fiasco,
- shellac,
- hold down,
- quell,
- bring to knees,
- took aback,
- Jukes,
- Blanked,
- square,
- wipe off map,
- conclusion,
- throw monkey wrench in,
- beat the system,
- conclude,
- give run around,
- complete,
- counterplot,
- surmount,
- rout,
- finish,
- nose out,
- lemon,
- gridlock,
- Worsting,
- Unsuccess,
- getting around,
- lead balloon,
- standstill,
- trump,
- outdo,
- end,
- run rings around,
- withholds,
- conquest,
- Squashing,
- overmaster,
- put a stop to,
- Harnessing,
- grand slam,
- ascendancy,
- termination,
- gambit,
- check,
- accomplish,
- bishop,
- achievement,
- subject,
- chessman,
- trample underfoot,
- stalemate,
- non-success.
Usage Examples for CHECKMATE
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White may leave Black in check as often as he likes, for it makes no difference, as he can never arrive at a checkmate position. - "Amusements in Mathematics" by Henry Ernest Dudeney
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" I might try to checkmate her at her own game by threatening to tell the story of the missing costumes," reflected Grace aloud. - "Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School or The Parting of the Ways" by Jessie Graham Flower
