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
activate
activation
actuation
agent
attribute
attribute something to someone
hyperstimulate
hyperstimulation
implement
implementation
in
launch pad
pioneer
Pygmalion effect
reactivate
realization
realize
reattribute
render
spark

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
network marketing
outsell
oversell
panic selling
peddle
pile
ply
salesmanship
sell out
sell something off
sellout
soft sell
sold
sting

Examples of realizing

realizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In 1993, probably realizing that it is not easy to measure so short a time with precision, they changed it to 1.5 seconds.
In that example, the runner strictly prefers realizing some culmination outcome (winning) in certain ways (by competing fairly) rather than others (by cheating).
Nouns within this group appear to be derived from verbs realizing a particular aspect of the basic representation shown above.
If we are committed to realizing designs as physical artifacts, then ultimately we are committed to their intentionality.
Rehabilitation is about realizing potential, with both a positive attitude and a broad-brush approach.
Of more moment is that there much more moral evil than is needed for the purpose of realizing the good of there being free persons.
The ability to focus attention is essential to realizing efficient and robust sensor-guided manipulation.
In realizing this, we learn that the environment of bodies on the earth's surface is anisotropic and that this is detectable independently of projectiles' motion.
The historical, without realizing it, obeys and discloses the figure and the signature of the historial.
Whatever the sources promoting greater individual responsibility, many governments acknowledge that realizing viable retirement incomes in the future depends on citizens' competence and consistency.
With popular government thwarted, citizens had nothing to lose and everything to gain by realizing that the new government was a conspiracy.
To clearly represent a relationship between required functions and realizing structure is indispensable for determining a platform and upgrade modules.
Realizing this, union leaders argued that they had to organize a large, pattern-setting company.
Realizing musical gestures with the computer: paradigms and problems.
In this spirit, this paper is interested in identifying the mechanism working through bad institutions that prevents agents from realizing the gains from widespread exchange.
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