actualize

American  

[ak-choo-uh-lahyz] / ˈæk tʃu əˌlaɪz /

especially British, actualise

verb (used with object)

actualized, actualizing

1. to make actual or real; turn into action or fact.

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actualize British  

/ ˈæktʃʊəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make actual or real

2. to represent realistically

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Other Word Forms

• actualization noun

Etymology

Origin of actualize

First recorded in 1800–10; actual + -ize

Example Sentences

“Interstate conflict is only intensifying, and data is the first shot across the bow for how to actualize that conflict,” she added.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2024

But they nevertheless actualize Laura's words: Choosing flesh over immortality is to live and die, too.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2023

It is always worth the effort to actualize them.

From Slate • May 13, 2023

One of the reasons fitness culture becomes an American export globally is because it’s such a perfect arena to actualize these fantasies about self-fashioning that we have.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Would not this, at last, actualize the Pauline dream, of each single citizen as a member of the Body of Christ?

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn