Perpetrate vs Consummate - What's the difference?
perpetrate | consummate |
To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
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* 1880 , ,
highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
* a consummate sergeant
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To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
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To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
* 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch
In transitive terms the difference between perpetrate and consummate
is that perpetrate is to be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit while consummate is to make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.As an adjective consummate is
complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.perpetrate
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Verb
(en-verb)External links
* * ----consummate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.
Synonyms
* (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utterDerived terms
* consummatelyVerb
(consummat)- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
