3 definitions found for realized

realized adj 1: successfully completed or brought to an end; "his mission accomplished he took a vacation"; "the completed project"; "the joy of a realized ambition overcame him" [syn: accomplished, completed, realized, realised]

Realize Re"al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Realized; p. pr. & vb. n. Realizing.] [Cf. F. r['e]aliser.] 1. To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project. We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth. --Glanvill. 2. To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience. Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us. --Jowett. We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. --Sir W. Hamilton. 3. To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune. 4. To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation. Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate. --Macaulay. 5. To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "realized": accomplished, achieved, appreciated, apprehended, ascertained, attained, compassed, comprehended, conceived, consummated, discerned, discharged, dispatched, disposed of, down pat, effected, effectuated, executed, fulfilled, grasped, implemented, known, pat, perceived, prehended, recognized, seized, set at rest, understood, wrought, wrought out