actualize
Americanverb (used with object)
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actualizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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actualized,
past participle, past
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actualizing
present participle
verb
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to make actual or real
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to represent realistically
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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actualizesimple
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actualizessimple
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have actualizedperfect
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has actualizedperfect
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am actualizingprogressive
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are actualizingprogressive
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is actualizingprogressive
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have been actualizingperfect progressive
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has been actualizingperfect progressive
Past
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actualizedsimple
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had actualizedperfect
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was actualizingprogressive
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were actualizingprogressive
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had been actualizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of actualize
Example Sentences
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“It wasn’t as much solving this like, master plan or whatever. It was moreso helping him actualize the things that he was seeing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
And that is how people who should know better, like my colleague, can confidently dismiss concerns that these doom-filled stories might actualize as baseless.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
It is always worth the effort to actualize them.
From Slate ● May 13, 2023
Aristotle proposed the theory of hylomorphism, which states that form is actually present in the material world and responsible for causing the acorn to actualize its potential as an oak tree.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Mind is in itself free; but if it does not actualize this possibility, it is in no true sense free, either for itself or for another.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
What Refik’s work actualizes is flying through that dark galaxy of latent space and saying, ‘Nothing exists here, but what might exist here?’
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
This is simply further proof that 2022 is when Google actualizes years of laying the groundwork for a major wearables push.
From The Verge ● Apr. 25, 2022
And morality, in that it is the realization of an ideal which is perfect, is the process whereby the absolute good actualizes itself in man.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
How one actualizes the result of thinking, and being authentic with one's self recalls what Jung said about art.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
Action formally actualizes or perfects the patiens: actio fit in passo.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
These “mere mortals” are “so often mistaken” about actualized strivers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Dorothy belts “Over the Rainbow” underneath newly actualized bluebirds and an impressively ominous sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
“That’s all fine and good, but what isn’t is that Peach is absolutely amazing and perfect in every way, completely actualized, and needs to learn nothing in the film,” Mr. Carrick says in the review.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
To suggest so implies that women weren't real before they got pregnant, weren't actualized or already complete.
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
Moreover when the nature itself acts immanently, the term of such action remaining within the agent itself to actualize or perfect it, some passive potentiality of the agent is being actualized.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
More importantly, we ceded the idea that effective politics are a vehicle for connecting people to one another in service of actualizing a higher ideal of our lives and our surroundings.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024
Thinking about Henry “Box” Brown’s methodology, the box as a vehicle for him to get closer to actualizing his own freedom on his own terms.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
“In other words, actualizing a just and equitable educational system.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Congress is one step closer to actualizing transformative antitrust reform for the tech industry after sending their most viable bill to the Senate floor.
From The Verge ● Jan. 20, 2022
In central calm, far within the struggle and vex of the rolling elements, throned in its own serene realm of law, lives the free, conscious soul, and will live eternally, actualizing its potentialities.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
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