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ac·tu·al·ize  (kch--lz)
v. ac·tu·al·ized, ac·tu·al·iz·ing, ac·tu·al·iz·es
v.tr.
1. To realize in action or make real: "More flexible life patterns could . . . nurture and renew our spirits through opportunities to actualize personal dreams" Fred Best.
2. To describe or portray realistically.
v.intr.
To become actual.
actu·al·i·zation (--l-zshn) n.
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Verb1.actualizeactualize - make real or concrete; give reality or substance to; "our ideas must be substantiated into actions"
actualise, realize, substantiate, realise
create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
incarnate - make concrete and real
express - manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait); "Many of the laboratory animals express the trait"
2.actualize - represent or describe realistically
actualise
represent - describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality; "He represented this book as an example of the Russian 19th century novel"
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Sociology of Health and Illness, Australia, MacMillan) suggests that ever since its conservative modern beginnings with Florence Nightingale, nursing has been likened to a giant but obedient servant, never fully realising or actualising its own power to bring about personal gain.
Giant voices for change by Iliffe, Jill / Australian Nursing Journal
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