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 give material form to; realize: to materialize an ambition.
- to invest with material attributes: to materialize abstract ideas with metaphors.
- to make physically perceptible; cause (a spirit or the like) to appear in bodily form.
- to render materialistic.
Origin of materialize
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emerge, appear, realize, unfold, happen, occur, evolve, visualize, develop, exteriorize, substantiate, typify, personalize, metamorphose, manifest, coalesce, objectify, externalize, personify, actualizeExamples from the Web for materialize
Contemporary Examples of materialize
This Oath Keeper was there for the protest, which had yet to materialize, and had a few friends joining him, he told me.
It took the beheading videos, and the deaths of two Americans, for that support to materialize.
But the unity deal failed to materialize after the Palestinian Authority declined to pay the salaries of Hamas civil servants.
Furthermore, by removing them from their post, you create an opportunity for insurgent black magic to materialize a car bomb.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in IraqNathan Bradley Bethea
August 31, 2014
He has “no idea” if the fullness of the memory will ever materialize.
Historical Examples of materialize
Is that the room where he's expected to materialize with his machine?
Martians Never DieLucius Daniel
He made his camp and bided the arrival of the cattle; but that arrival did not materialize.
When the West Was YoungFrederick R. Bechdolt
For some reason, however, the collaborated volume did not materialize.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, CompleteAlbert Bigelow Paine
But, somehow, these literary evenings never did materialize.
GigoloEdna Ferber
A ghost could not materialize and kidnap a girl of flesh and blood.
The White InvadersRaymond King Cummings
materialize
materialise
- (intr) to become fact; actually happenour 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 tangibleafter hours of discussion, the project finally began to materialize
- physics to form (material particles) from energy, as in pair production