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realize
[ ree-uh-lahyz ]
verb (used with object)
- to grasp or understand clearly.
Synonyms: comprehend, conceive
Antonyms: misunderstand
- to make real; give reality to (a hope, fear, plan, etc.).
Synonyms: effect, accomplish
- to bring vividly to the mind.
- to convert into cash or money:
to realize securities.
- to obtain as a profit or income for oneself by trade, labor, or investment.
- to bring as proceeds, as from a sale:
The goods realized $1000.
- Music. to sight-read on a keyboard instrument or write out in notation the full harmony and ornamentation indicated by (a figured bass).
- Linguistics. to serve as an instance, representation, or embodiment of (an abstract linguistic element or category):
In “Jack tripped,” the subject is realized by “Jack,” the predicate by “tripped,” and the past tense by “-ed.”
verb (used without object)
- to convert property or goods into cash or money.
realize
/ ˈrɪəˌlaɪz /
verb
- when tr, may take a clause as object to become conscious or aware of (something)
- tr, often passive to bring (a plan, ambition, etc) to fruition; make actual or concrete
- tr to give (something, such as a drama or film) the appearance of reality
- tr (of goods, property, etc) to sell for or make (a certain sum)
this table realized £800
- tr to convert (property or goods) into cash
- tr of a musicologist or performer
- to expand or complete (a thorough-bass part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass
- to reconstruct (a composition) from an incomplete set of parts
- to sound or utter (a phoneme or other speech sound) in actual speech; articulate
Derived Forms
- ˈrealˌizer, noun
- ˌrealiˈzation, noun
- ˈrealˌizable, adjective
- ˈrealˌizably, adverb
Other Words From
- re·al·iz·a·ble adjective
- re·al·iz·a·bil·i·ty [ree-, uh, -lahyz-, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], re·al·iz·a·ble·ness noun
- re·al·iz·a·bly adverb
- re·al·iz·er noun
- hy·per·re·al·ize verb (used with object) hyperrealized hyperrealizing
- non·re·al·iz·a·ble adjective
- non·re·al·iz·ing adjective
- pre·re·al·ize verb (used with object) prerealized prerealizing
- un·der·re·al·ize verb (used with object) underrealized underrealizing
- un·re·al·ize verb (used with object) unrealized unrealizing
Word History and Origins
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
People are going to be forced to watch their neighbors, their co-workers, their kids’ friends, and their fellow parents get loaded onto planes and deported, and they are not going to like it one bit as they realize that, once again, the cruelty is the point, and that all of this pointless suffering isn’t going to bring back 2019 prices.
We go through a process of consideration and elimination as we realize the show is so bespoke to this venue that to try and capture it for a small screen just wouldn’t make any sense.
“You realize he didn’t speak out loud during that day. Human beings are meant to be convivial and social — the default setting for a lot of us is that we need other people around. Ted’s character Charles is a guy who’s still perfectly vibrant, very sharp, alive in the world, but his life has just gotten very small. And the question is — for him and for the audience — can he go through something that makes him see the value in living a bigger life?”
In his typically whiny book "The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free," Hegseth writes, "Our ‘elites’ are like the feckless drug-addled businessmen at Nakatomi Plaza, looking down on Bruce Willis’s John McClane in ‘Die Hard,’" adding, "But there will come a day when they realize they need John McClane."
“The sooner they realize that, the smarter they’ll be about how to move forward.”
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