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# realize

«realize» in Mova's school dictionary: **to understand clearly that it is true** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (realizes, realized, realizing; also spelt realise)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To realize something is to understand clearly that it is true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/realize/#m1)

2) To realize a hope or wish is to make it come true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/realize/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character suddenly understands a truth or what they feel

### examples

- I realize I was wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/realize/#x1)
- She did not realize the child was gone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/realize/#x2)
- At last he realized how long the road was. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/realize/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; it is about knowing, not counting

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «realize» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/realize/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.