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CONSUMMATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does consummated mean?
• CONSUMMATED (adjective)
The adjective CONSUMMATED has 1 sense:
1. brought to completion
Familiarity information: CONSUMMATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brought to completion
Context example:
a consummated transaction
Similar:
completed ((of a marriage) completed by the first act of sexual intercourse after the ceremony)
fulfilled (completed to perfection)
Antonym:
unconsummated (not consummated (especially of a marriage))
Context examples
In his murder my crimes are consummated; the miserable series of my being is wound to its close!
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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