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consummate
1. adj. Consommé.
He plays poker with consummate skill.
Il joue au poker avec un art consommé.
2. v. Consommer.
The marriage was at last consummated.
La mariage fut enfin consommé.
I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room, (The Angel of the Odd - Edgar Allan Poe)
Je venais justement d'expédier un dîner plus solide qu'à l'ordinaire, dont la truffe dyspeptique ne faisait pas l'article le moins important
anglais > anglais
consummate
1. adj. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
2. adj. Highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified.
3. v. To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
4. v. To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
5. v. To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
6. v. (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

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Why don't you two consummate this affair.  I play the role of mother, cook, friend and mad auntie monster with consummate ease.  They use the language of morality with the consummate skill of ones who long ago lost sight of the difference between right and wrong, with the self-confidence of those who have no moral capacity to contend with in their manipulations.

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