realize

1. (transitive)Examples: "He realized that he had left his umbrella on the train."; "She desperately yelled at her young daughter, frantic to make her realize what she had done."; "[S]he cannot realize the change we must undergo. She has no idea of poverty but in the abstract: she has only read of it in poetry, where it is allied to love."UStransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "Over the mind of the tourist, visiting the Old World for the first time,—countries where have transpired thrilling events recorded in history, what an immensity of thought and feeling sweeps! It was thus with Natalie; she could not realize that she was treading in the footsteps of royalty, who living in long past days, had held sway over this land, had looked upon this land of "merrie England" as their home."; "That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it."UStransitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "Its true that Faith may be ſaid, as you ſpeak, to Realize ſalvation to the Soul; that is, vvhen the Soul doubteth vvhether there be indeed ſuch a Glory and Salvation to be expected and enjoyed by Believers, as Chriſt hath promiſed, here Faith apprehendeth it as Real or Certain, and ſo reſolves the doubt."; "[T]rue Faith is ſuch as realizeth Things abſent, remote and future. That it is not the nearneſs of a thing makes it real; but Faith ſeeth a Thing to be real, though afar off; vvhen vve are apt to judge many times of the reality of things, becauſe they are near."; "[I]t vvas ſo vvarm in my Imagination, and ſo realiz'd to me, that to the Hour I ſavv them, I could not be perſuaded, but that it vvas or vvould be true; […]"Antonyms: derealizetransitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "Near-synonyms: implement, execute; actualize, materialize, embody; accomplish"; "The objectives of the project were never fully realized."; "The Apoſtle ſaith, That by Adam ſinne entred into the vvorld. It ſufficeth to knovv; That God, by juſt imputation, realizeth the infection into the vvhole race of Adam; in vvhom vve vvere as in a common Lumpe, and in his leaven ſovvred: […]"Antonyms: disrealizetransitive

5. (transitive)reflexivetransitive

6. (transitive)Examples: "By realizing the company’s assets, the liquidator was able to return most of the shareholders’ investments."; "Profits from the investment can be realized at any time by selling the shares."; "A dealer doing a large amount of business, and turning over his capital rapidly, has but a small portion of it in ready money at any one time. […] [W]hen he retires from business it is into money that he converts the whole, and not until then does he deem himself to have realized his gains: […]"transitive