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Consumate vs. Consummate

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Which is correct: Consumate or Consummate

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Consumate

Misspelling of consummate.

Consummateadjective

Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

Consummateadjective

Highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified.

‘a consummate sergeant’;

Consummateverb

(transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.

Consummateverb

(transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.

Consummateverb

(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.’;

Consummateverb

(intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

Consummateadjective

Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

‘The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.’;

Consummateverb

To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.

‘To consummate this business happily.’;

Consummateverb

of marriages

Consummateverb

make perfect; bring to perfection

Consummateadjective

having or revealing supreme mastery or skill;

‘a consummate artist’; ‘consummate skill’; ‘a masterful speaker’; ‘masterful technique’; ‘a masterly performance of the sonata’; ‘a virtuoso performance’;

Consummateadjective

perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities;

‘a complete gentleman’; ‘consummate happiness’; ‘a consummate performance’;

Consummateadjective

without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

‘an arrant fool’; ‘a complete coward’; ‘a consummate fool’; ‘a double-dyed villain’; ‘gross negligence’; ‘a perfect idiot’; ‘pure folly’; ‘what a sodding mess’; ‘stark staring mad’; ‘a thoroughgoing villain’; ‘utter nonsense’;

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