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Realize

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.

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Verb group 22

Clear 84% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Clear 84% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Fancy 84% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Fancy 84% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Figure 84% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Figure 84% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Image 84% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Image 84% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Make 84% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Make 84% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Net 84% connected

To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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Net 84% connected

To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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Picture 84% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Picture 84% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Project 84% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Project 84% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Sack 84% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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Sack 84% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Visualize 84% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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Visualize 84% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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Broader term 11

Acquire 76% connected

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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Cerebrate 76% connected

To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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Cogitate 76% connected

To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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Cognize 76% connected

To know or perceive; to recognize.

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Harmonize 76% connected

To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Sell 76% connected

Self.

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Think 76% connected

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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Manner of action 17

Anticipate 76% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Appreciate 76% connected

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value.

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Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Click 76% connected

To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

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Dawn 76% connected

To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

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Express 76% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Foreknow 76% connected

To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

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Foresee 76% connected

To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.

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Gross 76% connected

Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.

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Incarnate 76% connected

Not in the flesh; spiritual.

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Know 76% connected

Knee.

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Penetrate 76% connected

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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Perceive 76% connected

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

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Previse 76% connected

To foresee.

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Profit 76% connected

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or o…

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Derivationally related 2

Realization 74% connected

The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

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Realization 74% connected

The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

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Synonym 10

Actualize 92% connected

To make actual; to realize in action.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Agnize 92% connected

To recognize; to acknowledge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Clear 92% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Earn 92% connected

See Ern, n.

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Gain 92% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Make 92% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recognize 92% connected

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.

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See 92% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Substantiate 92% connected

To make to exist; to make real.

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Understand 92% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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