consummates

Brings to completion

Consummates is the verb form of consummate, meaning to bring to completion or make perfect.

A deal or agreement is consummated when finalized: The merger consummates years of negotiation.

A marriage is consummated through first sexual intercourse, making it legally binding.

The word carries a sense of fulfillment—the final act that makes something whole.

completion

finalizes

Makes official and permanent

accomplishes · achieves · fulfills · realizes · culminates · executes · seals · clinches · crowns · caps

Opposites
completion/fulfillment

consummatesstarts

Initiates an action

initiates · begins · commences · abandons · aborts

perfection/excellence

consummatesbotches

Fails through carelessness

bungles · ruins · spoils · mars · fails

marriage/sexual union

consummatesabstains

Deliberately doesn't partake

refrains · annuls · withholds · forgoes

Family

consummate, consummation, consummated, consummating, consummately, consummations

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