actualize

[ ak-choo-uh-lahyz ]
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verb (used with object),ac·tu·al·ized, ac·tu·al·iz·ing.
  1. to make actual or real; turn into action or fact.

Origin of actualize

1
First recorded in 1800–10; actual + -ize
  • Also especially British, ac·tu·al·ise .

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How to use actualize in a sentence

  • By it more nobly than by any other action man is enabled to actualise his superior nature.

    The Reform of Education | Giovanni Gentile
  • It is a value, but not in the sense that man first appreciates it and subsequently looks for it and strives to actualise it.

    The Reform of Education | Giovanni Gentile
  • His potentialities began to actualise with his comprehension of El Greco and the Venetians.

    Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning | Willard Huntington Wright
  • There is something unwholesome in acknowledging any ideal which we do not strive so far as we can to actualise.

  • He did actualise knowing where some things could be hanging.

British Dictionary definitions for actualize

actualize

actualise

/ (ˈæktʃʊəˌlaɪz) /


verb(tr)
  1. to make actual or real

  2. to represent realistically

Derived forms of actualize

  • actualization or actualisation, noun

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