mate

verbcandidate·updated Jun 3, 2026

place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game

Classifications

Cognitive

45%llm-generatedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Responsibility

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value
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Automation

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Variants

synonym
checkmatecopulatecouplematchpairtwin
pasttense
mated
presentparticiple
mating
thirdpersonsingular
mates
pastparticiple
mated