Realized

Definition: Realized

Realized

Adjective

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".

Date "realized" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Realized

Synonyms: accomplished (adj), completed (adj), realised (adj). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I realized that you're not actually mammals (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) I never realized Kennedy was so dangerous to the establishment (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison) And then I came here and I realized that these women are smart, terrific people who are trying to make a difference in the world (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford) I wish humankind would create such altruistic virtues, but sometimes I think socialism may never be realized. (Angels & Insects; writing credit: A.S. Byatt; Belinda Haas) I realized whenever Coach wanted to insult you he would call you by a certain junk food he was craving (Oliver Beene; writing credit: Axel Boisen;)
Lyrics	I realized quickly when I knew I should (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes) You realized it's not my fault not a moment too soon (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) I see a memory I never realized (Mandy; performing artist: Barry Manilow) On a good thing before I'd realized your game (Fighter; performing artist: CHRISTINA AGUILERA) Bit by bit, I've realized (My Father's Eyes; performing artist: Eric Clapton)
Clever	People would worry less about what others think of them if they only realized how seldom they do. (references; author: unknown) After many years of trying to find steady work, I worked as a historian--until I realized there was no future in it. (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Earl Cunningham: Dreams Realized (reference) Poetry Realized in Nature : Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early Nineteenth-Century Science (reference) Prices Realized on Rare Imprinted American Wooden Planes 1979-1992 (reference) Realized Religion - Research on the Relationship between Religion and Health (reference) Redemption Realized Through Christ (reference) (more book examples)

Music	The Moment I Realized (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The production of medflies can be realized in the laboratory by bathing medfly eggs in warm water—a process that kills the female embryos but doesn't harm the male embryos. In the pupal stage, the males canbe irradiated to render them sexually sterile. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..		We read the papers, we heard of horrors, but we hadn't realized that there was a war. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Emo Philips	When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.
Frank Lloyd Wright	Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
Lily Tomlin	I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
Ovid	My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Thomas Carlyle	Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
United Nations	1948	Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	I had long realized that we were not in sympathy in religious belief
Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams	Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	I realized what the Orientals mean by contemplation and the forsaking of works
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		They soon realized that the strange, illogical experiences we call dreams almost always occur during REM sleep. (references)
		Benefits are not realized immediately, but rather are manifested over time, with some children continuing to show improvement over several years. (references)
		More than 60 years ago, physicians realized that restoring estrogen to a woman passing through menopause could relieve some of the annoying symptoms of that time and possibly protect her against osteoporosis. (references)
Business		Substantial energy savings could be realized by adopting zero- and low-cost measures. (references)
		The competition has soon realized the link between selling vacation trips and air tickets. (references)
		Some women's advocates, however, were skeptical that the goal could be realized because of a lack of resources. (references)
Economic History	Haiti	These plans have not been realized because Parliament never acted on those pieces of legislation. (references)
	Korea	If such a treaty is realized, regulations dealing with foreign investment will be further liberalized. (references)
	Romania	The 1996 local elections realized a major shift in the political orientation of the Romanian electorate. (references)
Human Rights	Morocco	In the last several years, the Ministry of Justice began to attempt to assert its authority and control over judges; however, such control was not realized by year's end. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	The gendarmes accused him of hiding his cousin, Chief Sergeant I.B. Coulibaly; however, they released him when they realized he was not related to I.B. and did not know him. (references)
Political Economy	FINLAND	The rest of privatization proceeds already realized or forthcoming will be allocated to debt redemption. (references)
Trade	Jamaica	Goods are considered to be competing if the regional manufacturer has the potential to supply 75 percent of the regional market - whether this potential is realized or not. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Bill Thomas	First of all, Bob, they're not retroactive. Ari Fleischer used that term in a news conference, and then realized he was wrong. And in a follow-up news conference, he said he was wrong, so they aren't retroactive.
Bob Barker	I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals. But I'll tell you, I hadn't been a vegetarian long before I realized I could understand why people have become vegetarians for health reasons.
Michael J. Fox	Just get away from it and not look at it and not deal with it. That's when I realized it was something I wanted to stop doing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	So far, at least, as it regards this branch of the subject, my best hopes have been realized.
Martin van Buren	1837-1841	We look back on obstacles avoided and dangers overcome, on expectations more than realized and prosperity perfectly secured.
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	If in the course of their growth we should open new channels of trade and create additional facilities for friendly intercourse, the benefits realized will be equal and mutual.
Richard Nixon	1969-1974	Forces now are converging that make possible, for the first time, the hope that many of man's deepest aspirations can at last be realized.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Then I learned how they ran the House bank, and I realized that was exactly what they had been doing!
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Our individual dreams must be realized by our common efforts.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	In a single instant, we realized that this will be a decisive decade in the history of liberty, that we've been called to a unique role in human events.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Realized" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 67.29% of the time. "Realized" is used about 2,421 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	67.29%	1,629	5,105
Lexical Verb (past participle)	31.77%	769	8,941
Adjective (general or positive)	0.95%	23	72,767
Total	100.00%	2,421	N/A

Expressions using "realized": be realized ♦ realized profit. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "realized": non-realized.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "realized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		realizohet (be fulfilled, be realized). (various references)

Arabic		‏تحقق (ascertain, be realized, check, come true, enquire, fruition, materialize). (various references)

Bulgarian		осъществявам се (actualize, be realized, come about, eventuate, materialize). (various references)

Chinese		体会 (realise, realised, realize, Realizing). (various references)

Danish		reelt realiseret værditilvækst (actually realized capital gain), tabt fortjeneste (lost profit, not realized profit), opnået pris (realized price), fragttab (lost freight, not realized freight). (various references)

Dutch		totdat de waardevermeerdering wordt verwezenlijkt (actually realized capital gain), in het buitenland te vereffenen goed (asset to be realized abroad), gederfde winst (lost profit, not realized profit), gederfde vracht (lost freight, not realized freight). (various references)

Finnish		toteutua (be fulfilled, be realized, come off, come true, materialize, work out), täyttyä (be fulfilled, be realized, come true, fill, get filled), mennä täytäntöön (be fulfilled, be realized, come true), hänelle selvisi (he realized, it dawned on him), hänelle kävi selväksi (että, he realized that). (various references)

French		réalisai, réalisés, réalisée, réalisèrent, réalisa. (various references)

German		verwirklichte (actualized), durchgeführt (accomplished). (various references)

Greek		μη πραγματοποιηθείσα ναύλωση (lost freight, not realized freight), πραγματική δημιουργία της υπεραξίας (actually realized capital gain), πραγματοποιηθέν κέρδοσ (realized profit), πραγματοποιηθείσα τιμή (realized price), απωλεσθέν κέρδος (lost profit, not realized profit). (various references)

Hebrew		ממומש (effectuated, materialized), מוגשם (fulfilled), מקוים (approved, certified, fullfilled). (various references)

Hungarian		testet ölt (to be realized, to come true, to materialize), teljesül (to be realized, to come true, to materialize). (various references)

Italian		realizzazione effettiva della plusvalenza (actually realized capital gain), bene da liquidare all'estero (asset to be realized abroad). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		的中 (become realized, hit the mark, strike home), 望みが適う (to have one's wish realized). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		のぞみがかなう (to have one's wish realized), てきちゅう (become realized, hit the mark, in the midst of the enemy, strike home). (various references)

Korean		실현하는 (realised). (various references)

Pig Latin		ealizedray.(various references)

Portuguese		realizado (accomplished, fulfilled). (various references)

Russian		реализовывать;понимать (realize, realizing). (various references)

Spanish		realizado (accomplished, complete, completed, executed). (various references)

Ukrainian		реалізований, здійснений, проданий. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "realized": etherealized, unrealized. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Realized" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arabized, metallised, realise, realised, realished, realixe, realiz, realizer, reallized, rearised, relaised, relize, resliced, ritalized, ruralise. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "realized" (pronounced rē"lī'zd or rē"ulī'zd)
4	-l ī' z d	analyzed, annualized, brutalized, capitalized, caramelized, catalyzed, centralized, civilized, collateralized, commercialized, creolized, criminalized, crystallized, decentralized, demobilized, demoralized, denationalized, departmentalized, destabilized, internalized, legalized, liberalized, localized, editorialized, equalized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, hospitalized, hydrolyzed, idealized, idolized, immobilized, industrialized, marginalized, materialized, memorialized, mobilized, monopolized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, normalized, paralyzed, penalized, personalized, professionalized, radicalized, rationalized, recapitalized, regionalized, revitalized, scandalized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, sterilized, stylized, symbolized, tantalized, trivialized, undercapitalized, underutilized, unrealized, utilized, vandalized, visualized.
3	-ī' z d	accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, anglicized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, burglarized, capsized, carbonized, categorized, characterized, circumcised, collectivized, colonized, colorized, compromised, computerized, containerized, criticized, customized, demilitarized, democratized, demonized, denuclearized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, digitized, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legitimized, lionized, magnetized, disenfranchised, disorganized, downsized, dramatized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, humanized, hypnotized, hypothesized, immunized, improvised, maximized, mechanized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, modernized, motorized, nonunionized, organized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, pasteurized, patronized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, randomized, reauthorized, recognized, reorganized, revolutionized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, standardized, stigmatized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, sympathized, synchronized, synthesized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, unamortized, unauthorized, undersized, unexercised, unionized, unorganized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, vaporized, westernized, winterized.
7	r ē" u l ī' z d	unrealized.
6	-ē" u l ī' z d	idealized.
5	-u l ī' z d	analyzed, annualized, brutalized, capitalized, caramelized, catalyzed, centralized, civilized, collateralized, commercialized, criminalized, crystallized, decentralized, demobilized, demoralized, denationalized, departmentalized, destabilized, internalized, legalized, liberalized, localized, editorialized, equalized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, hospitalized, hydrolyzed, idolized, immobilized, industrialized, marginalized, materialized, memorialized, mobilized, monopolized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, normalized, paralyzed, penalized, personalized, professionalized, radicalized, rationalized, recapitalized, regionalized, revitalized, scandalized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, sterilized, symbolized, tantalized, trivialized, undercapitalized, underutilized, utilized, vandalized, visualized.
4	-l ī' z d	creolized, stylized.
3	-ī' z d	accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, anglicized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, burglarized, capsized, carbonized, categorized, characterized, circumcised, collectivized, colonized, colorized, compromised, computerized, containerized, criticized, customized, demilitarized, democratized, demonized, denuclearized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, digitized, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legitimized, lionized, magnetized, disenfranchised, disorganized, downsized, dramatized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, humanized, hypnotized, hypothesized, immunized, improvised, maximized, mechanized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, modernized, motorized, nonunionized, organized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, pasteurized, patronized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, randomized, reauthorized, recognized, reorganized, revolutionized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, standardized, stigmatized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, sympathized, synchronized, synthesized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, unamortized, unauthorized, undersized, unexercised, unionized, unorganized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, vaporized, westernized, winterized.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-r-z"
	-1 letter: leadier, realize.
	-2 letters: aedile, aeried, ariled, dealer, dearie, derail, dialer, laired, lazied, lazier, leader, lieder, lizard, railed, razeed, rediae, redial, relaid, relied.
	-3 letters: aerie, aider, ailed, aired, alder, ariel, azide, deair, drail, eared, edile, eider, elder, elide, ideal, idler, irade, lader, laird, laree, lazed, liard, lidar, razed, razee, redia, riled, zaire.
	-4 letters: adze, aide.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-r-z"
	+1 letter: idealizer, laterized, pearlized, velarized.
	+2 letters: cartelized, demoralize, depolarize, federalize, idealizers, linearized, marbleized, serialized, unrealized, verbalized, vernalized.
	+3 letters: adrenalized, aerosolized, allegorized, caramelized, centralized, deformalize, deglamorize, demoralized, demoralizer, demoralizes, depolarized, depolarizer, depolarizes, desacralize, detribalize, eternalized, federalized, federalizes, generalized, lateralized, liberalized, literalized, mineralized, neutralized, recanalized, regularized, relativized, repolarized, revalorized, revitalized, secularized, thermalized.
	+4 letters: decentralize, deformalized, deformalizes, deglamorized, deglamorizes, demilitarize, demineralize, demoralizers, denaturalize, denuclearize, depolarizers, desacralized, desacralizes, detribalized, detribalizes, editorialize, etherealized, externalized, federalizing, internalized, materialized, memorialized, orientalized, overidealize, personalized, regionalized, renormalized, resocialized, restabilized, temporalized, unverbalized.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day
realized gain	5
realized	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Realized

Definition: Realized

Realized

Adjective

Synonyms: Realized

Crosswords: Realized

Modern Usage: Realized

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Commercial Usage: Realized

Books

Music

Photo Album: Realized

Digital Photo Gallery: Realized

Familiar Quotations: Realized

Emo Philips

Frank Lloyd Wright

Lily Tomlin

Ovid

Thomas Carlyle

Historic Usage: Realized

United Nations

Use in Literature: Realized

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Realized

Spoken Usage: Realized

Bill Thomas

Bob Barker

Michael J. Fox

Speeches: Realized

Andrew Jackson

Martin van Buren

Franklin Pierce

Richard Nixon

Ronald Reagan

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Usage Frequency: Realized

Expression: Realized

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Realized

Modern Translation: Realized

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Derivations & Misspellings: Realized

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Rhyming with "Realized"

Anagrams: Realized

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