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

  • Also, that if He had been less perfect, He would still have actualized in conformity with His being?

    Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)
  • Would it have come from His being (which, according to the above objection) was not yet actualized?

    Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)
  • In this use of desire, deliberation and choice, freedom is actualized.

  • They are not congruent and can never be in the actualized universe.

    The Mystery of Space | Robert T. Browne
  • The ambitious youth had a great idea in his mind, which was struggling to be actualized.

    Little By Little | William Taylor Adams

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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