Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
- muster out
- release from military service
- raise
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- take the bull by the horns
- face a difficulty and grapple with it without avoiding it
- check
- place into check
- outfox
- outdo someone in trickery
- play
- make bets
- nose
- defeat by a narrow margin
- run off
- decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff
- get the jump
- be there first
- defend
- be on the defensive; act against an attack
- stand
- withstand the force of something
- poach
- hunt illegally
- submit
- yield to the control of another
- barricade
- prevent access to by barricading
- cover
- play a higher card than the one previously played
- reassail
- assail again
- stalemate
- subject to a stalemate
- retire
- cause to get out
- subject
- make accountable for
- mate
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
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