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

Anyone who has watched “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” could understand what Addison meant: She is choosing to be free and clear, to have every choice in front of her, to actualize without apology.

From Salon

These “mere mortals” are “so often mistaken” about actualized strivers.

From The Wall Street Journal

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