materialize [muh -teer -ee-uh -lahyz]
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See more synonyms for materialize on Thesaurus.com verb (used without object), ma·te·ri·al·ized, ma·te·ri·al·iz·ing. 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. Show More
verb (used with object), ma·te·ri·al·ized, ma·te·ri·al·iz·ing. 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 . Show More
Also especially British ma·te·ri·al·ise .
Origin of materialize First recorded in
1700–10; material +
-ize Related forms 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 Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Related Words for materialize emerge ,
appear ,
realize ,
unfold ,
happen ,
occur ,
evolve ,
visualize ,
develop ,
exteriorize ,
substantiate ,
typify ,
personalize ,
metamorphose ,
manifest ,
coalesce ,
objectify ,
externalize ,
personify ,
actualize Examples 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.
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?
He made his camp and bided the arrival of the cattle; but that arrival did not materialize .
For some reason, however, the collaborated volume did not materialize .
But, somehow, these literary evenings never did materialize .
A ghost could not materialize and kidnap a girl of flesh and blood.
British Dictionary definitions for materialize (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 Show More
Derived Forms materialization or materialisation , noun materializer or materialiser , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Word Origin and History for materialize v. 1710, "represent as material," from material (adj.) + -ize . Meaning "appear in bodily form" is 1880, in spiritualism. Related: Materialized ; materializing .
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