consummated
pronunciation
How to pronounce consummated in British English: UK
How to pronounce consummated in American English: US
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- Adjective:
- brought to completion
Word Origin
- consummated (adj.)
- 1640s, "perfected," past participle adjective from consummate (v.). Of marriage, from 1709; earlier consummate (adj.) was used in this sense (1530s).
Example
- 1. Relatives said the marriage had not been consummated and that the girl was still living with her mother .
- 2. Multimedia technology has been consummated unceasingly with the rapid development of information technology .
- 3. So we finally consummated this ancient lurking passion .
- 4. I wasn 't sure this deal would ever be consummated .
- 5. In order to achieve this goal , the tax policy should be further to consummated in the next work .