consummate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- Adjective
- (British) enPR kŏn'səmət, IPA: /ˈkɒnsəmət/, /ˈkɒnsjʊmət/, /kənˈsʌmɪt/
- (America) enPR kŏn'səmət, IPA: /ˈkɑnsəmət/, /kənˈsʌmɪt/
- Verb
- (British) enPR kŏn'səmāt, IPA: /ˈkɒnsəmeɪt/, /ˈkɒnsjʊmeɪt/
- (America) enPR: kŏn'səmāt, IPA: /ˈkɑnsəmeɪt/
consummate
- Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- 1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, "The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting",
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- 1880, Georges Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot, Chapter VII,
- […] Marmaduke, who had the consummate impudence to reply that […]
- Highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified.
- a consummate sergeant
, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Section IV, - The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, […] ; thus it is in his power to control success.
- French: consommé
- German: perfekt, vollkommen, vollendet, unübertrefflich, völlig, ausgemacht, äußerste
- Italian: consumato, completo
- Portuguese: consumado
- Russian: законченный
- German: hochqualifiziert, vollwertig, vollkommen, erfahren
- Italian: consumato
- Portuguese: consumado
- Spanish: consumado
consummate (consummates, present participle consummating; past and past participle consummated)
- (transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
- (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
- (transitive) 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.
- 1890, Giovanni Boccaccio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, The Decameron, Novel 2, part 10,
- […] in the essay which he made the very first night to serve her so as to consummate the marriage he made a false move, […]
- (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.
- (bring to completion) complete, finish, round off; see also Thesaurus:end
- (give the finishing touch) complete, perfect, top off
- (make a marriage complete)
- (receive the finishing touch) come to a head, mature, ripe
- French: consommer
- German: vollenden, fertigstellen, vollbringen, vollziehen, fertig bringen, durchführen, zu Ende bringen, abrunden
- Italian: complere, completare
- Portuguese: consumar, perfectibilizar
- Russian: зака́нчивать
- Spanish: consumar
- French: consommer
- German: vollziehen
- Italian: consumare
- Spanish: consumar
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