Advanced English Word of the Day

Definitions

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consummate
1. adj. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
2. adj. Highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified.
3. v. To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
4. v. To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
5. v. To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
6. v. (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

Example Sentences

Why don't you two consummate this affair.  I play the role of mother, cook, friend and mad auntie monster with consummate ease.  They use the language of morality with the consummate skill of ones who long ago lost sight of the difference between right and wrong, with the self-confidence of those who have no moral capacity to contend with in their manipulations.

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