consummating
present participle ofconsummate
consummate
verb[T]
uk/ˈkɒn.sə.meɪt/us/ˈkɑːn.sə.meɪt/consummateverb[T](HAVE SEX)
lawspecialized
to make amarriageorromanticrelationshipcompleteby havingsex:
Themarriagewas never consummated.
consummateverb[T](COMPLETE)
formal
to make somethingcompleteorperfect
Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- A game
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- bear
- go (like/down) a bombidiom
- go faridiom
- go from strength to strengthidiom
- go into orbitidiom
- go placesidiom
- kill
- pan
- rise
- scrape through(something)
- sewsomethingup
- slam dunk
- smash itidiom
- somewhere
- stand out
Examplesofconsummating
consummating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
This relatedness of the sensibly determined to the higher self-consciousness in the unity of the moment is theconsummatingpoint of the self-consciousness.
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The pleasure ofconsummatingthis union lies partly in the relinquishing of the traditional father-son rivalry, essential to the formation of the normative man.
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He was expected to marry the woman repudiated three times and then repudiate her withoutconsummatingthe marriage.
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From this point of view, social obsession with theconsummatingact of marriage is bound up in the extreme violation this act constitutes when not authorized.
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There is no question that they would necessarily have prior knowledge of the possibility or the impossibility ofconsummatingthe marriage.
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Therefore, it is profoundly to be deplored that there should be any avoidable delay inconsummatingthe ideal which we set before the country in 1948.
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The ending depicts the two finallyconsummatingtheir relationship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While neverconsummatingthe marriage, he escaped with his wife and returned to his monastery.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Edmure, afterconsummatinghis marriage, is kept as a hostage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theconsummatingof their relationship occurs at a time when everyone else is against them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When he triedconsummatingthe marriage, he had 5 seizures.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They end upconsummatingtheir marriage that night.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, similarly to men in their society, xaniths can marry women, proving their masculinity byconsummatingthe marriage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One day, the lovers get stuck in a lonely place and end upconsummatingtheir relationship.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Where there is no physical danger, a happy ending is often defined as loversconsummatingtheir love despite various factors which may have thwarted it.
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