Usually means: Become aware of something understood.
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  1. realize: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. realize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. realize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. realize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. realize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Realize, realize: Wordnik
  7. realize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. realize: Wiktionary
  9. realize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. realize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. realize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. realize: Dictionary.com
  13. realize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. realize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Realize (Nami Tamaki song), Realize (disambiguation), Realize (song), Realize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Realize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. realize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. realize: Rhymezone
  19. realize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. realize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. realize: Free Dictionary
  22. realize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. realize: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. realize: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. realize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. realize: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. realize: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. realize: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See realizable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (originally chiefly Canada, US)
verb:  To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
verb:  To sense (something) strongly or vividly as if real.
verb:  To cause (something) to seem real; to make realistic; specifically, to present (something) clearly to the mind, a person, (archaic) oneself, etc., so that it seems real.
verb:  (chiefly passive voice, slightly formal) To convert (something imaginary or planned, as a goal or idea) into reality; to bring into real existence, to make real.
verb:  (reflexive) To achieve (one's) potential.
verb:  (business, finance)
verb:  To convert (an asset or property, especially investments such as bonds, shares, etc.) into a more easily usable form such as money, especially by selling the asset or property.
verb:  To acquire (money, a profit, etc.) by selling an asset or property, through trade, etc.; also (followed by on), to make (money or a profit) on an investment, a venture, etc.
verb:  Of an asset or property: to generate (a specific amount of money or interest) when invested or sold.
verb:  (linguistics) To turn (an abstract linguistic object, especially a phoneme) into a speech sound actually used in a language.
verb:  (mathematics) To obtain an entity from (an abstract group or structure).
verb:  (music)
verb:  To arrange (a musical work written for a single performer) to be performed by an orchestra; to orchestrate.
verb:  To complete (a musical work which is incomplete or not fully notated).
verb:  Chiefly in Baroque music: to play an accompaniment, harmonies, etc., based on (a figured bass).
verb:  (obsolete, US) To have an actual or real experience of (something).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To become aware of or understand a fact or situation.
verb:  To cause to seem real; to make realistic.
verb:  To convert an asset or property into a more easily usable form such as money.
verb:  Followed by on or upon: to acquire money or a profit from the sale of an asset or property.
verb:  (obsolete) With an adverb like badly or well: of an asset or property being sold: to generate little or a lot of money.

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