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, materialise .
Other words for materialize
Other words from materialize
- ma·te·ri·al·i·za·tion [muh-teer-ee-uh-lahy-zey-shuhn], /məˌtɪər i ə laɪˈzeɪ ʃən/, noun
- ma·te·ri·al·iz·er, 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
As he relishes his triumph, a larger, grinning version of the man materializes in the background, eyeing his prey.
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‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Unmasked: Robert Downey Jr. and Co. Speak at Comic-Con | Annaliza Savage | July 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Corleone family consigliere Tom Hagen suddenly materializes, and tells a shaken Geary that the incident will be taken care of.
Tim Cook’s Apple: Middling Products Designed to Pad the Bottom Line While Gouging Loyal Customers | Marlow Stern | June 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the difficulty over agreeing to an extension of the talks bodes poorly for the next round, if it even materializes.
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I should go anyway, whether your house-warming-infair materializes or not.
Dorothy's Travels | Evelyn RaymondOut of the encompassing gloom of all these, the camp-fire materializes figures as real to the eye as flesh and blood.
In New England Fields and Woods | Rowland E. RobinsonAloud, he said: "I'll go first, and if the spook materializes you two can beat it back into the room."
The Oakdale Affair | Edgar Rice BurroughsThis pictures an endless chain of fruitless lives all looking ever to some supreme future consummation which never materializes.
Radiant Motherhood | Marie Carmichael StopesOrganic strength materializes in the same way on the field of war.
The Armed Forces Officer | U. S. Department of Defense
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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