I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
consummate a marriage formal (= make your marriage complete by having sex )
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She claimed that he abused her and never consummated the marriage.
with consummate ease formal (= in a way that shows great skill and so makes something difficult look very easy )
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It was a beautiful goal, scored with consummate ease.
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ease
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They led a well-orchestrated attack and found their target with consummate ease .
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Illustrations produced by any package can be transferred with consummate ease to another.
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The mind does extraordinary things exaggerating or minimising with consummate ease .
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Levinson demonstrates consummate ease with this material.
skill
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De Gaulle conducted his strategy with consummate skill .
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With single-minded purpose and consummate skill , Morel set about organizing a movement.
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This was done with consummate skill and professionalism.
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It was a gap he was to fill with consummate skill .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Johnson was a consummate team player.
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Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" is one of the consummate masterpieces of German opera.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the firm is more than just a money-maker; it is the consummate all-rounder.
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Dealing with your children's friends who pop round in the evening calls for consummate diplomacy and the setting of time limits.
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He had done it with consummate aplomb.
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Her control of the stage is consummate , impossible to ignore and intimidating in the extreme.
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In the Senate, he has been a bit more tactful but is still a consummate partisan.
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Le Pen, a consummate political campaigner, cannily combined the two issues.
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Rick Williams is the consummate weekend warrior.
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Television, in this sense, is the consummate egalitarian medium of communication, surpassing oral language itself.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
marriage
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On refusing to consummate the marriage she was brought before the prior of Huntingdon.
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We didn't consummate the marriage for two weeks and only then because she was pressurised into it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A trustee was appointed to consummate the sale.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Between the New Delhi and Uppsala Assemblies no fewer than twenty-two unions were consummated.
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But they concede that settlement agreements over penalties can take months longer to consummate .
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He also realized that it would be chaste, that he would never physically consummate this love and that was fine.
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That which I have written is consummated concerning the operation of the sun.
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The latter part of the wide-ranging agreement has not yet been consummated.
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The symbols of the body and blood would certainly not have been consumed until the thanksgiving prayer had been adequately consummated.
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Thus the first deposition of a king since the Conquest was consummated.
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When the deal was consummated, Smith was given the assignment he coveted-to be in charge of finding new sources of pelts.