realizing
- 1Present participle and gerund of realize.
Realizing the deadline had already passed, the team scrambled to file an extension.
The company is finally realizing steady profits from its early investments.
Note
The -ing form does double duty. As a participle it builds progressives (is realizing steady profits) and opening clauses (Realizing the deadline had passed, …), where the subject that follows must be the one doing the realizing. As a gerund it fills a noun slot: realizing one's potential, realizing an asset. The object decides the meaning. A clause signals dawning awareness, while profits, goals or property signal making something real or turning it into money.
realizing is a form of realize
realize, verb: To recognize a fact or situation or grasp its meaning or importance, often after it has existed for some time. Full entry
- Spelling
- realize → realizing: drop the e, add -ing
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