different between awaken vs realize

English

Etymology

From Middle English awakenen or awaknen, from Old English awæcnan or awæcnian, from a- plus wæcnan or wæcnian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??we?k?n/
• Rhymes: -e?k?n

Verb

awaken (third-person singular simple present awakens, present participle awakening, simple past and past participle awakened) (but see usage notes)

1. (transitive) To cause to become awake.

   She awakened him by ringing the bell.

2. (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.

   Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

   Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

   We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.

4. (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
5. (rare) past participle of awake
   • 1665 Robert Hooke, Micrographia

     [This ant] I ?uffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural po?ture, remained movele?s about an hour; but then , upon a ?udden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ?leep, it ?uddenly reviv'd and ran away...

Usage notes

This verb, for many speakers, has been essentially conflated with the verb awake, and has adopted parts of awake’s conjugation. awaken remains the bare form (and also in awakens and awakening), but its simple past and past participle are replaced by those of awake: awoke and awoken, respectively.

For many others, awaken has simply supplanted awake, without adopting conjugational elements from awake.

Synonyms

• (transitive, to cause to become awake): knock up, uprouse; see also Thesaurus:awaken
• (intransitive, to stop sleeping): awake, stir; see also Thesaurus:wake
• (to bring into action): animate, energize; see also Thesaurus:enliven

Antonyms

• (stop sleeping): fall asleep

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• realise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

Attested since 1610, from French réaliser, from Middle French real (“actual”), from Old French reel, from Latin re?lis, from r?s (“thing, event, deed, fact”); as if real +? -ize.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??i.?.la?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.la?z/
• Hyphenation: re?al?ize

Verb

realize (third-person singular simple present realizes, present participle realizing, simple past and past participle realized)

2. (formal, transitive) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into reality; to bring into real existence

   Synonyms: accomplish, actualize, materialize

   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth.

3. (transitive) To become aware of (a fact or situation, especially of something that has been true for a long time).
   • 2002, The Flaming Lips, Do You Realize??

     Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?

4. (transitive) To cause to seem real; to sense vividly or strongly; to make one's own in thought or experience.
   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds

     Over the mind of the tourist, visiting the Old World for the first time,—countries where have transpired thrilling events recorded in history, what an immensity of thought and feeling sweeps! It was thus with Natalie; she could not realize that she was treading in the footsteps of royalty, who living in long past days, had held sway over this land, had looked upon this land of "merrie England" as their home.

   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, II:

     That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.

   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides Translated into English

     Many coincidences […] soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us.

   • 1996, Alan Brown, Audrey Hepburn's Neck

     Drawings appear fully realized in his mind's eye at a furious rate, before he even picks up his pencil.

5. (transitive, business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get

6. (transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, such as shares, bonds, etc.
   • 1855, Washington Irving, Wolfert's Roost

     Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize, a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real.

7. (transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.
8. (transitive, linguistics) To turn an abstract linguistic object into actual language, especially said of a phoneme's conversion into speech sound.
   • 2016, Martin Maiden, The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 297:

     Many (probably most) speakers realize it as [ø] or [œ] in other contexts as well. In Midi French, schwa is realized more frequently than in northern varieties, including in word-final position, where it generally (but not always) corresponds to […]

Derived terms

• realizable
• realization
• realizer

Related terms

• real
• realism
• realistic
• reality

Translations

References

• realize in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• realize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ealize/

Etymology

From French réaliser.

Verb

realize (medial form realiz)

1. to realize.

Related terms

• realizasion
• realizater

Portuguese

Verb

realize

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of realizar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of realizar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of realizar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of realizar