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Past tense of actualize

regular verb

The past tense of actualize is actualized. The past participle is also actualized.

Forms of actualize

Base form (V1)actualize /ˈæktju.əlaɪz/
Past tense (V2)actualized
Past participle (V3)actualized
Present participleactualizing
Third person singularactualizes

Actualized in a sentence

  • An essence exists if and only if it is actualized or concretized somehow, in some concrete form.1962, Charles Hartshorne, “How Some Speak and Yet Do Not Speak of God,”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 23, number 2…. From the entry concretize
  • This was a spatially and temporally unbounded sea of fluctuating virtual energies: the prespace of the actualized universe.2008, Ervin László, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World, Rochester, V.T.: Inner…. From the entry prespace
  • That principle, protomatter, is actualized (by the mouse-form) in the mouse, but is potentiality to be actualized in other ways.2001, James W. Felt, Coming to Be: Toward a Thomistic-Whiteheadian Metaphysics of Becoming, →ISBN. From the entry protomatter
  • 'Human multiunity, or altogetherness, actualized in reality', wrote Feodorov, 'is a necessary condition for the understanding of the Divine Triunity.1994, David Nicholls, Deity and Domination, page 234. From the entry altogetherness
  • Within the theories of the origin of the Nordic clinkerbuilt boat even the skinboat has played a role, which has recently been actualized through Brøgger.1956, Arne Furumark, editor, Arctica, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell Boktryckeri AB, page 70. From the entry clinkerbuilt

Meaning of actualize

  1. verb To make real; to realize.
  2. verb To become actual or real.
  3. verb To realize one's full potential.

Full definition of actualize

Questions about the past tense of actualize

What is the past tense of actualize?
The past tense of actualize is actualized.
What is the past participle of actualize?
The past participle of actualize is actualized.
Is actualize a regular or irregular verb?
Actualize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: actualize (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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