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REALISED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Successfully completed or brought to an end
Example:
the joy of a realized ambition overcame him
Synonyms:
accomplished; completed; realised; realized
Classified under:
Similar:
complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb realise
Context examples:
But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realised.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Smith realised this tablet told the same story as Noah and the Ark in the Biblical book of Genesis.
(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)
We soon realised that the remarkable collecting power of the VLT and the extreme stability of ESPRESSO made it a prime machine to study exoplanet atmospheres, says Pedro Figueira, ESPRESSO instrument scientist at ESO in Chile.
(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)
He had, by that time, realised an easy competence—enough to secure the purchase of a little estate adjoining Highbury, which he had always longed for—enough to marry a woman as portionless even as Miss Taylor, and to live according to the wishes of his own friendly and social disposition.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Sick of ambitious and mercenary connexions, prizing more and more the sterling good of principle and temper, and chiefly anxious to bind by the strongest securities all that remained to him of domestic felicity, he had pondered with genuine satisfaction on the more than possibility of the two young friends finding their natural consolation in each other for all that had occurred of disappointment to either; and the joyful consent which met Edmund's application, the high sense of having realised a great acquisition in the promise of Fanny for a daughter, formed just such a contrast with his early opinion on the subject when the poor little girl's coming had been first agitated, as time is for ever producing between the plans and decisions of mortals, for their own instruction, and their neighbours' entertainment.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
As they saw the parcel he realised my meaning.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But, Jane, your aspirations after family ties and domestic happiness may be realised otherwise than by the means you contemplate: you may marry.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Young dogs are bound to play, and out of the exigencies of the situation they realised their play in this mimic warfare.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And Holmes’ fears came to be realised, for from that day to this no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the sinister German, or the morose Englishman.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One realised the red-hot energy which underlay Holmes’s phlegmatic exterior when one saw the sudden change which came over him from the moment that he entered the fatal apartment.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
