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Answer for the clue "Come to understand ", 7 letters:
realize

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Word definitions for realize in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "bring into existence," from French réaliser "make real" (16c.), from Middle French real "actual" (see real (adj.)). Sense of "understand clearly, make real in the mind" is first recorded 1775. Sense of "obtain, amass" is from 1753. Related: Realized ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Realize \Re"al*ize\ (r[=e]"al*[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Realized (-[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Realizing (-[imac]`z[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. r['e]aliser.] To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish. 2 (context transitive English) To become aware of a fact or situation.

Usage examples of realize.

But beyond Beneventum they had mostly to avail themselves of inns, none of which, Julia now realized, could have accommodated them in their old state.

Realizing he was not dealing with a mischievous or destructive student, the guard metamorphosed from accusatory to concerned.

Glen, his stomach churning, his groin tingling, managed to follow only a few steps before he realized the acrophobia was going to win.

With her first coherent thought, finding herself blanketed by tons of stony carbon, Maia realized that there were indeed worse things than acrophobia or seasickness.

I realized that as there was no limit to the number of operations which could be conducted, you could even have multiple independent units, bonded by affinity, and sharing a single identity.

Nobody had realized that the male drive to reproduce was still so fierce among the men of the Affluence, educated in the philosophy of Presentism.

I realize that it is not mandatory for the government to produce a corpse to substantiate a charge of murder, but a corpse or two is not too much to ask, if they are alleging over a hundred deaths.

When she finished, she took a deep breath and realized the allegro had done its work.

Bitterly alluring scents came to him, and as he darted into the grass, he realized he was hungry.

Then she saw the white dot appear, a dot that expanded most amazingly until she realized that it was a face rushing toward her, a face with no body, turning and turning, its long white hair and beard floating around it.

Gary came to realize that boredom would be their biggest enemy, boredom that led to ambivalence, ambivalence that would lead the companions to the same state as Jacek and his wretched band.

Whether or not she realized it, she was an invaluable source of information, Ambrose thought, turning a page of the newspaper.

But this soon, before they had actual physical custody--this made it imperative, he realized, to get the Anarch out of the ground with no delay, law or no law.

He had looked out at the quizzical faces, listened to the frantic scrawling of the panicking students, and realized that with a mind that ran and tripped and hurled itself down the corridors of theory in anarchic fashion, he could learn himself, in haphazard lurches, but he could not impart the understanding he so loved.

The townspeople realized the fruit of the Norman labor and a low moan came to Wulfgar as their voices raised in anguished protest.