realized
grasped or understood:A move to coastal Georgia left her with a newly realized taste for the beach and a bloated sunscreen budget.
depicted vividly or made to seem real:Writing historical fiction requires extensive research in order to build up a richly realized world and make it comprehensible to the reader.
completed or brought to fruition:Driven by the concept of outdoor learning, members of the faculty developed the seed of an idea into a fully realized plan.I've performed in some evenings of sketches, but it's been years since I was in a fully realized play with a rehearsal process and a director.
(of a person) having reached one’s full spiritual or psychological potential:He laughs from a deep down center of inner peace, his face radiant with the beauty of a realized soul.
(of goods or securities) converted into cash or money:Cash receipts include all cash generated from operations, including the proceeds from realized assets.
obtained as proceeds, savings, or profit:The company’s realized income has remained roughly the same despite their reduced workforce.If the realized savings do not exceed the financing costs, the energy services company will make up the difference.
Music. (of keyboard music) having the full harmony or ornamentation written out:A fully realized version of the organ part is also available.
the simple past tense and past participle of realize.
Origin of realized
1- Also especially British, re·al·ised .
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How to use realized in a sentence
She said her husband showed her a photograph of a Buk launcher afterwards and she realised that was indeed what she had seen.
MH17 Missile Can't Hide From These Internet Sleuths | Eliot Higgins | August 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA Turkish official close to the Prime Minister went further by saying Turkey realised that Iraq was falling apart.
When we heard, we realised that so many of the people who stayed had died and that it was mostly our men.
Typhoon Haiyan: The Philippine Village that Lost Its Men | The Telegraph | November 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOn checking it, they realised that it was the same missile as in the U-2 photos.
The Spy Who Saved The World—Then Tried To Destroy It | Jeremy Duns | November 3, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWalked into living room and realised I was holding signy thing and he had my remote control.
Penis Beakers and Constipated Dolls: What Mothers REALLY Want To Know | Tom Sykes | October 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
At the same time he realised that she had never seemed so adorably lovely, so exquisite, so out of his reach.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodBut more—he realised that the missing part of her was now astir, touched into life by another, and a younger, man.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThis expectation of high dividends, I need hardly say, has not been realised, and the Act in this respect has been a dead letter.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowEach of these pairs, he realised, was really a single state of which the adjectives represented the extremes at either end.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodThen, presently, he came to himself again, and realised to his joy that a light still shone in the windows of the Bruderstube.
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