Realize

/ˈɹɪə.laɪz/ · verb

Meaning

To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time)..

Definitions by Sense

1. To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
2. To sense (something) strongly or vividly as if real.
3. To cause (something) to seem real; to make realistic; specifically, to present (something) clearly to the mind, a person, (archaic) oneself, etc., so that it seems real.
4. To convert (something imaginary or planned, as a goal or idea) into reality; to bring into real existence, to make real.
5. To achieve (one's) potential.
6. To convert (an asset or property, especially investments such as bonds, shares, etc.) into a more easily usable form such as money, especially by selling the asset or property.
7. To acquire (money, a profit, etc.) by selling an asset or property, through trade, etc.; also (followed by on), to make (money or a profit) on an investment, a venture, etc.
8. Of an asset or property: to generate (a specific amount of money or interest) when invested or sold.

Example Sentences

He realized that he had left his umbrella on the train.

She desperately yelled at her young daughter, frantic to make her realize what she had done.

[S]he cannot realize the change we must undergo. She has no idea of poverty but in the abstract: she has only read of it in poetry, where it is allied to love.

But Scott, unaccountable as it seems, evidently failed to realize how far superior is Clara Mowbray [in Saint Ronan's Well] to all his other heroines of the same rank or class.

Have faith in God! He shall dispose thy lot, / Nor weep for woe thou realisest not: / They shall precede thee to the better land, / And meet and greet thee on its joyful strand.

For so bight and placid was the farewell voyage of the little spirit [of a child], […] that it was impossible to realize that it was death that was approaching.

Utterly helpleſs, thou wert ſinking for ever, and realiſedſt not the fearfulneſs of thy poſition, for thus wert thou born and nurtured.

No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

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Antonyms for realize

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Word Forms

• realizes
• realizing
• realized
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• glossary
• realize
• realizest
• realizedst
• realizeth
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• realise

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