actualize

American  

[ak-choo-uh-lahyz] / ˈæk tʃu əˌlaɪz /

especially British, actualise

verb (used with object)

actualized, actualizing

1. to make actual or real; turn into action or fact.

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actualize British  

/ ˈæktʃʊəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make actual or real

2. to represent realistically

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Other Word Forms

• actualization noun

Etymology

Origin of actualize

First recorded in 1800–10; actual + -ize

Example Sentences

As Hill described it last month, they weren’t so much “solving this master plan” with Sasaki as they were “helping him actualize the things” he was trying to do in his delivery.

From Los Angeles Times

“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

Dorothy belts “Over the Rainbow” underneath newly actualized bluebirds and an impressively ominous sky.

From Los Angeles Times

Whether selfless unity can overcome a history of selfish disunity — actualized in the face of a common “threat” from within — will be the question of the day.

From Salon

But "Father Figure's" central theme is the most actualized in a movie like "Babygirl."

From Salon