materialize
to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
to assume material or bodily form; become corporeal: The ghost materialized before Hamlet.
to make physically perceptible; cause (a spirit or the like) to appear in bodily form.
to render materialistic.
Origin of materialize
1- Also especially British, ma·te·ri·al·ise .
Other words for materialize
Other words from materialize
- ma·te·ri·al·i·za·tion, noun
- ma·te·ri·al·iz·er, noun
- re·ma·te·ri·al·i·za·tion, noun
- re·ma·te·ri·al·ize, verb, re·ma·te·ri·al·ized, re·ma·te·ri·al·iz·ing.
- un·ma·te·ri·al·ized, adjective
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How to use materialize in a sentence
Handsome Feilding at once proceeded to materialise his bargain, and at last the termagant was tamed.
Court Beauties of Old Whitehall | W. R. H. TrowbridgeBut they did not materialise; the rule of Martial Law—bad to beat—remained unbeatable.
The Siege of Kimberley | T. PhelanWho can never materialise because she's mostly made up of dreams.
Poppy | Cynthia StockleyWho so fit to materialise reforms as the man who had conceived them?
Sir John French | Cecil ChisholmRumours drifted around about accompanying the 41st division to Italy, but they did not materialise.
The Seventh Manchesters | S. J. Wilson
British Dictionary definitions for materialize
materialise
/ (məˈtɪərɪəˌlaɪz) /
(intr) to become fact; actually happen: our hopes never materialized
to invest or become invested with a physical shape or form
to cause (a spirit, as of a dead person) to appear in material form or (of a spirit) to appear in such form
(intr) to take shape; become tangible: after hours of discussion, the project finally began to materialize
physics to form (material particles) from energy, as in pair production
Derived forms of materialize
- materialization or materialisation, noun
- materializer or materialiser, noun
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