reach

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to achieve something
achieveAfter years of rejection, she finally achieved success on the big screen.
fulfilI fulfilled my dreams of becoming a marine biologist.
realizeUKThere was nothing to prevent her from realising her ambitions.
come trueI worked so hard to be a doctor, and now my dream has come true.
accomplishThese goals will be extremely hard to accomplish.
attainAfter years of struggle, the nation attained independence.
 someone's worst fears are realized[ T ]
used for saying that something that someone was worrying about really happened: （担忧的事）发生，成真
Ten years later her worst fears were realized.10年后，她最害怕的事情发生了。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing things to happen
activation
actuation
agent
attribute
attribute something to someone
give rise toidiom
hyperstimulate
hyperstimulation
implement
implementation
launch pad
prompt
proximately
put someone to somethingidiom
Pygmalion effect
reactivate
realization
render
spark
spell

realizeverb (MONEY)

finance & economics specialized
to be sold for a particular amount of money: 变卖资产;变现
The paintings are expected to realize $500,000 each.预期这些画每幅值价50万美元。
 realize assetsfinance & economics specialized
to sell property in order to get some money: 变卖资产;变现
He had to realize all his assets to pay off his debts.他不得不变卖所有的资产来还债。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Selling
auction
Black Friday
bundle
bundle something with something
bundling
concession
hock
MLM
network marketing
outsell
oversell
panic selling
ply
sales drive
sales pitch
salesmanship
sell out
sell something off
sellout
sting

realize | American Dictionary

realize
verb[ T ]
us/ˈri·əˌlɑɪz/

realizeverb[T] (BECOME AWARE)

to become aware of or understand a situation:
He realized the store would be closing in a few minutes.
[ + (that) clause ]Suddenly I realized (that) I was lost.

realizeverb[T] (ACHIEVE)

to achieve things you hope for or plan for:
They finally realized their goal of buying a summer home.

realize | Business English

realize
verb[ T ]
(also UKrealise)uk /ˈrɪəlaɪz/us
 realize a gain/profit/loss
FINANCE
to make or lose money when you sell something:
They're trading on an extremely short-term basis and will sell once they can realize a profit.
Following liquidation of the portfolio, the County realized a loss of approximately $600 million of its investment in the County Pools.
FINANCE
to make money or a profit from doing something:
In the past 12 months, the firm has realized a double-digit increase in sales and return on capital.
 realize assets
FINANCE
to sell assets for cash:
They have three years to realise their assets and pay back as much of the debt as possible.
to achieve something you planned to do or hoped for:
To realize their full financial potential, firms need to retain the talent and know-how that made them successful in the first place.

Examples of realize

realize
Dreaming as a subjective experience is realized at the phenomenal level.
Such a dividend can only be realized if eradication is achieved in finite time.
I described the forms in (20b) as showing the second person suffix realized as /st/.
Generalization differs from my proposed lexical excorporation in that the 'bleached' semantic component is realized overtly in the latter.
The challenge here is rather small, and trivial for any theory of grammar which allows one word to be realized in more than one way.
The emerging surgeon soon realizes that technical expertise in the operating theatre is only pan of a successful outcome.
Once this was realized, farmers had taken more care and had reported no further problems.
Otherwise, even very small discrepancies between the equilibrium values of the prices and the realized ones would open the door for huge arbitrage opportunities.
However, it has to be realized that synthetic compounds as such date back to the earliest recorded stages of the language.
The same speaker may have realized this sometimes as voiced, sometimes as voiceless.
Nouns within this group appear to be derived from verbs realizing a particular aspect of the basic representation shown above.
They recognized, of course, that any innate behavioral tendency would need to be realized in a brain mechanism of one sort or another.
Consequentialism requires that one should choose that plan which realizes the best possible outcomes.
The processing of information proceeds, taking the combination of such features, which may be realized through synaptic learning.
We note that both parts of the dichotomy can be realized.
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