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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. 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. v. To describe or portray realistically.
  3. v. To become actual.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make actual. Also spelled actualise.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To make real; to realize.
  2. v. To become actual or real.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make actual; to realize in action.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. represent or describe realistically
  2. v. make real or concrete; give reality or substance to

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