Definition of "checkmated" []

• Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game. (adjective)
• Suffering a personal loss with no obvious chance to escape the loss. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of checkmate. (verb)

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• "Similarly in the modernday, we often use chess as a metaphor of a battle of wits, although I have yet to hear someone say that someone was "checkmated" as a circumlocution for "dead"."
• "If the player cannot resort to either of these tactics to save his king he is "checkmated" and loses the game."
• "You and I have these little feuds, neither of us gains any ground at all, just little strokes of the egos as we think to ourselves we "checkmated" the other."