consummate

Object

• marriage: Comments How can you marry your wife's daughter even if you haven't consummated the marriage, she is still you step daughter!
• relationship: He cannot take on any role in Pyotr's conspiracy, nor can he consummate any real relationship.
• union: The form of sexual act that consummates heterosexual unions is the unique one through which procreation can and does take place naturally.
• merger: In consummating the merger, assume that several changes will be made in the internal control structures of the two entities.
• affair: Flash forward Newly married he may be, but Jack White has just consummated an old affair.
• love: So it was that Wicca was born, as a sacred context within which two people who desired one another could consummate that love.

Used with why or when

when: It will be consummated when Christ returns, and the wedding of the lamb will come.

Modifies a noun

• showman: A consummate showman, he displays childlike wonder at his own feats.
• musicianship: The stage was almost overflowing with a wide variety of instruments... Each was played with consummate musicianship.
• artistry: A director of consummate artistry like Wim Wenders would probably endorse the point Owens made.
• ease: They are still beating their opponents with consummate ease, too.
• professionalism: But they soon showed their consummate professionalism and quickly made up for lost time.
• entertainer: Lulu - I'm Back For More Whether singing, acting or hosting television shows, Lulu is the consummate entertainer.

Modifying Another Word

• never: Chases are never consummated, the day ends with no promise of rebirth.
• not: Art points us toward this goal, it does not consummate it.
• ever: In fact I doubt very much whether the bloody thing was ever consummated in the first place.
• fully: I wasn't really aware if any of the relationships in which Henry and Daphne indulged were fully consummated.
• then: Ultimately, both parties rub their necks along the ground then consummate the relationship in a most untidy fashion.
• sexually: They lived together in an exclusive, claustrophobic relationship, which was not, I think, sexually consummated at that time.

Used with adjective complement

do: So Joseph did consummate the marriage and there were other children.