to actualize
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7.1
- verb
- /ˈæktʃuəˌlaɪz/
- US
:
actualizar
- To turn her ideas into reality, she worked tirelessly to actualize her vision for the community center.
- actualize the community
- actualize a procreative union
- actualize by action
We're trying to actualize some greater purpose.
- We're trying to actualize some greater purpose.
- It was you agreeing to actualize a potentiality.
- Going back to John Maxwell, what actions are you taking to actualize the alignment of your perfect day?
- What motivates me every single day is the never ending journey of actualizing my limitless potential.
- They self actualized very early, right?
- So therefore if we try to self actualise, what that is, is growth and growth is hard.
- That's what you need to do to truly actualize a dream.
- I find tremendous wisdom in that, but I am certainly nowhere near being able to actualize that.
- And this is very important to do that, to kind of actualise vectors by numbers so they become actualised.
- Dunamis means the possibilities inherent in a thing which may or may not be actualised.
- It's, it's more of I, I think that there's this morass that's holding you back from actualizing what you're trying to do.
- There are things that they just naturally tend towards and sort of and that actualizing fulfills their, their natural goal.
- You've got some other abstract results, but that's not actualized.
Examples
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Our Level A members have actualized their destinies.
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It's been well over a month, and you have yet to actualize what you promised.
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We're trying to actualize some greater purpose.
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Then you decide to get back, get back in the ring to try to actualize this, this dream.
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You are supposed to actualize your dreams and your passion.
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Perhaps having new parents attend parenting classes would help them to actualize these conditions in their families.
Academic text (1999) -
That demonstrates the level of willingness that is required to actualize anything of meaning in this world.
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Live your gift and actualize it to the fullest.
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In the process of its journey, consciousness not only produces ideas, but also acts upon and actualizes them.
Academic text (1994) -
Second, there is a world of difference between setting laudable goals and ideals for ourselves and actualizing them.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
143
3.0
Get something you want by working to reach it
142
2.7
To make an idea, plan, or wish become real
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7.9
To make an idea or plan clear and specific
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9.9
To make an idea or feeling into something physical
To make an idea or plan become real and physical
Antonyms
How Real
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Actualize comes from the root act, which means 'to do', and the ending -ize, which means 'to make'. Think of it as turning a plan into action, so to actualize something is to make it real.