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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Realize \Re"al*ize\ (r[=e]"al*[imac]z), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Realized} (-[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Realizing} (-[imac]'z[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. r['e]aliser.]
1. To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.
We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain against the globe of earth. --Glanvill.
2. To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.
Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us. --Jowett.
We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. --Sir W. Hamilton.
3. To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.
4. To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.
Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate. --Macaulay.
5. To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
realized
adjective: successfully completed or brought to an end; "his mission accomplished he took a vacation"; "the completed project"; "the joy of a realized ambition overcame him" [syn: {accomplished}, {completed}, {realised}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "realized": accomplished, achieved, appreciated, apprehended, ascertained, attained, compassed, comprehended, conceived, consummated, discerned, discharged, dispatched, disposed of, down pat, effected, effectuated, executed, fulfilled, grasped, implemented, known, pat, perceived, prehended, recognized, seized, set at rest, understood, wrought, wrought out
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