D defs.my
Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

checked

/(chĕkt)/ · IPA /t͡ʃɛkt/
01 adj. Held back from some action especially by force.
  1. 1.
    Held back from some action especially by force.
  2. 2.
    having a pattern of alternating dark and light squares in rows and columns.
Syn. curbed. — Syn. -- checkered.