Consummated
[kɔnsə,meɪtid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Consummate
Editor: Sweeney
Examples
- General Bowen, I saw, was very anxious that the surrender should be consummated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She must smash it, it must be smashed before her ecstasy was consummated, fulfilled for ever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation was consummated or not; but not so all of them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A few days are past, and the great event of Amelia's life is consummated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Men grew from infancy to old age, their children's children had married and loved and worked while the social change we speak of as the industrial revolution was being consummated. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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