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Realized   /rˈiəlˌaɪzd/   Listen
Realized

adjective
1.
Successfully completed or brought to an end.  Synonyms: accomplished, completed, realised.  "The completed project" , "The joy of a realized ambition overcame him"



Realize

verb
(past & past part. realized; pres. part. realizing)
1.
Be fully aware or cognizant of.  Synonyms: agnise, agnize, realise, recognise, recognize.
2.
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"
3.
Make real or concrete; give reality or substance to.  Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, substantiate.
4.
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"
5.
Convert into cash; of goods and property.  Synonym: realise.
6.
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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"Realized" Quotes from Famous Books



... fixed his eyes upon his sarsaparilla. He frowned savagely into its pale brown foam when he realized that I purposed to force him to speak first. His voice was ominously surly as he shifted his cigar to say: "Well, young fellow, what ...
— The Plum Tree • David Graham Phillips

... ever planned. To sit there alone and people it, as when it was at its best, with all the glory of the emperor, the court ladies, the vestal virgins, senators, warriors, artists, men of letters and the rest, is a treat to the imagination that cannot be realized on any ...
— A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel • S. G. Bayne

... of the punches, although dazing him slightly, brought Redmond to his senses, as he realized how vulnerable his momentary loss of temper had rendered him. He now braced himself with dogged determination and, covering up warily, circled his adversary with clever foot-work. Yorke, tearing in again was met with one of the crudest jabs he ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall

... pleasant dream is soon dispelled by reality, leaving, at most, a feeble hope lying in the lap of possibility. Once we have abandoned ourselves to a fit of the blues, visions are conjured up which do not so easily vanish again; for it is always just possible that the visions may be realized. But we are not always able to estimate the exact degree of possibility: possibility may easily pass into probability; and thus we deliver ourselves up to torture. Therefore we should be careful not to be over-anxious on ...
— Counsels and Maxims - From The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer

... his artillery he sent for safety to Cabin Creek, across Grand River and Lieutenant-colonel Lewis R. Jewell of the Sixth Kansas Cavalry he sent eastward, in the direction of Maysville, Arkansas, his expectation being—and it was realized—that Jewell would strike the trail of Watie and engage him while Weer himself ...
— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel


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