actualize

Bring to fruition

Actualize means to make real or concrete what was previously potential, theoretical, or imagined.

The word appears often in self-help and business contexts: actualize your dreams, actualize your potential.

It can also mean to represent realistically: The film actualized the horrors of war.

A more formal alternative to realize in its "make real" sense.

accomplish

fulfill

Execute to completion

attain · finalize · implement · realize · consummate · effectuate · deliver · produce · materialize · perform

manifest

embody

Express through physical form

externalize · crystallize · express · demonstrate · instantiate · represent · make real · objectify · reify · physicalize

growth

flourish

To grow vigorously

blossom · cultivate · nurture · expand · mature · progress · advance · bloom · burgeon · unfold

potential

fulfillment

State of achieved purpose

optimization · capacities · talents · abilities · aptitudes · mastery · competence · proficiency · personal growth · self-development

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realization

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Be unsuccessful

imagine · fantasize · dream · suppress · repress

continuation

actualizeend

Final portion or cessation

terminate · abort · dissolve · extinguish · undo

success

actualizefail

Be unsuccessful

falter · flounder · miscarry · fall short · squander

Family

actuality, actualization, actualized, actualizing, actualizes, actualise, actualises, actualising

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G