What's the difference between checkmate and checkmated?

Checkmate


Definition:

  • (n.) The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
  • (n.) A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And those are unresolvable, and you're checkmated whichever way you go."
  • (2) He gave me a sleepy-lidded smile, the sort I imagine a grandmaster might give on checkmating someone easily.
  • (3) Non-violence was a creative doctrine in the South because it checkmated the rabid segregationalists who were thirsting for an opportunity to physically crush Negroes.
  • (4) We are not checkmated.” Sanders’s campaign is more often compared to Obama’s in 2008 – when the Illinois senator surprised Clinton and the political establishment by pulling off an unexpected victory – than to Jackson’s.

Checkmated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Checkmate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And those are unresolvable, and you're checkmated whichever way you go."
  • (2) He gave me a sleepy-lidded smile, the sort I imagine a grandmaster might give on checkmating someone easily.
  • (3) Non-violence was a creative doctrine in the South because it checkmated the rabid segregationalists who were thirsting for an opportunity to physically crush Negroes.
  • (4) We are not checkmated.” Sanders’s campaign is more often compared to Obama’s in 2008 – when the Illinois senator surprised Clinton and the political establishment by pulling off an unexpected victory – than to Jackson’s.

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