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Definition of Materialize
1. Verb. Come into being; become reality. "Her dream really materialized"
Generic synonyms: Come About, Fall Out, Go On, Hap, Happen, Occur, Pass, Pass Off, Take Place
Specialized synonyms: Appear, Come Out
Antonyms: Dematerialise, Dematerialize
Derivative terms: Materialisation, Materialisation, Materialisation, Materialization, Materialization, Materialization
Definition of Materialize
1. v. t. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
2. v. i. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
Definition of Materialize
1. Verb. (transitive US) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive US) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere. ¹
3. Verb. (alternative spelling of materialise) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Materialize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Materialize
Literary usage of Materialize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"In its oldest sense, materialize is a transitive verb meaning” to give material
form to,” as in “materialize an idea by writing it down. ..."
2. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... and that all the good wishes therein expressed did really materialize, the
marriage of Manlius and Julia might stand for all time as the summum bonum of ..."
3. Mark Hanna's "moral Cranks" And--others: A Study of To-day by William H. Muldoon (1900)
"How a great flour trust failed to materialize—The interesting and instructive
experience of a woman investor —A glittering and typical scheme. ..."
4. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1915)
"... either by outside interference or because of miscalculation as to a supposed
opportunity to commit the crime which fails to materialize; in short, ..."
5. A Poet of the Air: Letters of Jack Morris Wright, First Lieutenant of the by Jack Morris Wright (1918)
"... well out of your system, as you should every once in a while; I 'm glad to
see you not only start to realize that, but to materialize the conception. ..."
6. Rome and the Council in the Nineteenth Century by Félix Bungener (1870)
"It is, in fact, inevitable that a religious authority, whose chief concern is to
assure its own dominion, should tend continually to materialize the ..."
7. History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century: In Germany by J. H. Merle d'Aubigné (1844)
"Indeed, there are two extremes in religious views; the one tends to materialize
all things; the other to spiritualize every thing. ..."
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