consummate
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Is consummate a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of consummate?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete, as a participle)Examples: "Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate."obsolete
2. (obsolete, as a participle)Examples: "I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.Examples: "Although it was agreed by all that discovery must be consummated by possession and use, […]"; "In one word, in perfumery the artist completes and consummates the original natural odour, which he cuts, so to speak, and mounts as a jeweller improves and brings out the water of a precious stone."Synonyms: complete, finish, round off, complete, conclude, consummate, discontinue, dotransitive
2. (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.Synonyms: complete, perfect, top offtransitive
3. (transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.Examples: "the marriage was never consummated"; "After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage."; "[…] in the essay which he made the very first night to serve her so as to consummate the marriage he made a false move, […]"transitive
4. (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.Synonyms: come to a head, mature, ripeintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary