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REALIZED

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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:

Adjectives

Similar:

complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb realize

Credits

 Context examples: 

This study demonstrates that marine plastics are far more abundant than anyone realized and can be found potentially everywhere in the ocean.

(Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

He had been lucky in his profession; but spending freely, what had come freely, had realized nothing.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Straker was excited at hearing the account, although he does not seem to have quite realized its true significance.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Are you excited? This is the month you long awaited, whether you realized it or not.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Researchers realized that genes weren’t protecting them, because those who moved away from the Kuna islands developed high blood pressure and heart disease at typical rates.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

By comparing changes in brightness Spitzer observed to the energy flow models, researchers realized an atmosphere with volatile materials could best explain the temperatures.

(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)

The wind had by this time backed to the east, and there was a shudder amongst the watchers on the cliff as they realized the terrible danger in which she now was.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They sat at the lowest depth of human misery, and hugged a bitter comfort to their souls as they realized that they could go no lower.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I believe I may have heard some whisper of that distant thought, in the old unhappy loss or want of something never to be realized, of which I had been sensible.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With three decades of data, the biologists realized that in chambers with high levels of carbon dioxide, the total biomass of the marsh sedges increased by 20%.

(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)