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consummate verb

• make (a marriage or relationship) complete by having sexual intercourse.
• "they did not consummate their marriage until months after it took place"

consummate adjective

• showing great skill and flair.
• "she dressed with consummate elegance"
Similar: perfect, exemplary, supreme, ultimate, faultless, quintessential, superb, superior, accomplished, expert, proficient, skilful, skilled, masterly, master, superlative, first-class, talented, gifted, polished, well versed, well trained, practised, complete, total, utter, absolute, pure, solid, sheer,
Origin: late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘completed, accomplished’): from Latin consummat- ‘brought to completion’, from the verb consummare, from con- ‘altogether’ + summa ‘sum total’, feminine of summus ‘highest, supreme’.


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