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Realize

verb

(past & past part. realized; pres. part. realizing)

Be fully aware or cognizant of. Synonyms: agnise, agnize, realise, recognise, recognize.

Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally. Synonyms: realise, see, understand. "I just can't see your point" , "Does she realize how important this decision is?" , "I don't understand the idea"

Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to. Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, substantiate.

Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages. Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, gain, make, pull in, realise, take in. "She earns a lot in her new job" , "This merger brought in lots of money" , "He clears $5,000 each month"

Convert into cash; of goods and property. Synonym: realise.

Expand or complete (a part in a piece of baroque music) by supplying the harmonies indicated in the figured bass. Synonym: realise.

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"Realize" Quotes from Famous Books

... well as he, by the turn of affairs; her distress managed to keep her awake of nights, especially when she began to realize there was no escape from consequences. That usually pleasant word "brother" became unbearable to her; she began to despise it. To him, the word "sister" was the foundation for ...

— Nedra • George Barr McCutcheon

... presumption had hidden a real desire to find among them the hero to whom his man's worship of courage and greatness could have been dedicated. He was too young—and especially too young in worldly wisdom—to realize that the outside man is not of necessity the man himself. He merely felt, as each wooden face confronted his own, that here was surely no Great Man, no Hero. Only when it came to the civilians his eyes rested with some degree of satisfaction ...

— The Native Born - or, The Rajah's People • I. A. R. Wylie

... You dont realize it; but if you fire a rifle into a German he drops just as surely as a ...

— Press Cuttings • George Bernard Shaw

... realize that Emily would never be well again, that she would never romp over the rocks with Bob in the summer or ride with him on the sledge when he took the dogs to haul wood in the winter. There would be no more merry laughter as she played about the cabin. ...

— Ungava Bob - A Winter's Tale • Dillon Wallace

... out, his face twisted sourly. He said now, "You misunderstand. I realize that the military's the only quick way of getting a bounce in caste. I wish I'd figured that out sooner, before I made a trade out of the one I was born into, Communications. It's too late now, I'm into my forties with a busted marriage but the proud papa of a kid." He twisted his face ...

— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds

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