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consummated

consummated is the simple past and past participle of consummate.

Meaning of consummate

Verb

consummate (third-person singular simple present consummates, present participle consummating, simple past and past participle consummated)

  1. (transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
    • Although it was agreed by all that discovery must be consummated by possession and use, […]1921, James Truslow Adams, The Founding of New England, chapter III
  2. (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
  3. (transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by the spouses' first engaging in sexual intercourse.
    • the marriage was never consummated
  4. (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

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Words formed from consummated

Questions about consummated

What is consummated the simple past and past participle of?
Consummated is the simple past and past participle of consummate.

Words near consummated in the dictionary

  1. consumingness
  2. consumings
  3. consummate
  4. consummate marriage
  5. consummate marriages
  6. consummated
  7. consummately
  8. consummates
  9. consummatest
  10. consummateth
  11. consummating

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