Actualise

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To bring an idea, plan, or intention into reality or practical effect
2. To cause something conceived or planned to become real or effective
3. To realize or implement a concept by turning it into an actual state or event

Etymology: "Actualise" is simply "actual" with a verb-making ending attached, and the ending has a longer journey than the base word. The suffix traces back through Ancient Greek "-izein", a verb-forming ending, which passed into Late Latin as "-izare" and then into Middle French as "-iser". English took it on in Middle English as "-isen", and it settled into the modern "-ize" form that the American spelling keeps. The British "-ise" spelling is the one used here. "Actual" itself comes from Latin "actualis", meaning active or practical, a word built on "actus", a doing or an act. So the verb carries the sense of turning something from a mere possibility into an act or fact. Its meaning, "make ideas real", preserves that original idea of bringing something into action.

Synonyms: realize, actualize, achieve, fulfill, manifest

Antonyms: abandon, neglect