realising
- 1Present participle and gerund of realise.
Residents are only now realising how much the new bypass will change the village.
Realising the plan took the firm nearly ten years and most of its savings.
Note
The -ise spelling is the British standard, and it runs through the whole set: realise, realised, realising. Oxford spelling keeps -ize, as American English does, giving realizing. Whichever set a writer chooses should hold across a document, down to realisation. In both spellings the final e drops before -ing, and the form serves as participle (is only now realising) and gerund (realising the plan took years).
realising is a form of realise
realise, verb: To become aware of or come to understand a fact or situation, often one that has been the case for some time. Full entry
- Spelling
- realise → realising: drop the e, add -ing
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