to consummate
17
8.5
- verb
- /ˈkɒnsəˌmeɪt/
- NSFW
:
consumar
- A marriage isn't official until it's been consummated.
- consummate the marriage
- consummating his love
- never consummated
And so when you get married and when you consummate that marriage in sex, there is some some mystical joining.
- And so when you get married and when you consummate that marriage in sex, there is some some mystical joining.
- So does consummating a marriage that also rocks.
- They can't actually consummate their marriage now they're both in religious communities and she's, you know, she does it, but she does it for him.
Examples
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By the end of the week, the marriage was still not consummated.
Fiction book (1998) -
A year after their union, Solange complains that the marriage has yet to be consummated.
Academic text (2017) -
Now you best go ahead and consummate the marriage.
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I'll come out in the next couple weekends, and we'll consummate.
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But the marriage has not yet been consummated, sir.
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If you send him away, we shall consummate our love without the bonds of vows.
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The marriage was finally consummated on Sita's next visit to her husband, some months later.
Academic text (1990) -
On the second night, she slept alone with her husband in his hut, and the marriage was consummated.
Academic text (2007) -
They consummated their love.
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They will now consummate the marriage under the witness of the tribe.
Synonyms
∞
3.0
To touch each other's private parts for physical pleasure
999
9.8
To have sex with someone
23
8.1
To have sex with someone
10
7.9
To have sex, usually used for animals or in biology
Antonyms
How Formal
- NSFW
262
9.9
- NSFW
17
8.5
- NSFW
296
5.3
- NSFW
∞
3.0
- NSFW
652
7.4
- Offensive
∞
9.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
consummate = con + summ + ate
The sexual sense is a specialized extension of 'to complete' and cannot reliably be predicted from the visible morphemes by average learners; the morphemes themselves are not transparent in modern English usage.
Etymology
Consummate (verb, marriage) kept the basic meaning 'to make complete' from Latin con- ('together') and summus ('highest' or 'top'), and was used for marriage to mean completing the union. So to consummate a marriage is to finish or 'complete' it by having sexual intercourse.