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Antonyms for materialize
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : muh-teer-ee-uh-lahyz |
Phonetic Transcription : məˈtɪər i əˌlaɪz |
Definition of materialize
Origin :- 1710, "represent as material," from material (adj.) + -ize. Meaning "appear in bodily form" is 1880, in spiritualism. Related: Materialized; materializing.
- verb come into being
- Is that the room where he's expected to materialize with his machine?
- Extract from : « Martians Never Die » by Lucius Daniel
- He made his camp and bided the arrival of the cattle; but that arrival did not materialize.
- Extract from : « When the West Was Young » by Frederick R. Bechdolt
- For some reason, however, the collaborated volume did not materialize.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- But, somehow, these literary evenings never did materialize.
- Extract from : « Gigolo » by Edna Ferber
- A ghost could not materialize and kidnap a girl of flesh and blood.
- Extract from : « The White Invaders » by Raymond King Cummings
- I could set the switches at my belt to materialize me into New York.
- Extract from : « The White Invaders » by Raymond King Cummings
- If it should fail to materialize—as had been known—what then?
- Extract from : « The Bounty of the Chesapeake » by James Wharton
- Why could not the former "materialize" as well as the latter?
- Extract from : « Their Pilgrimage » by Charles Dudley Warner
- An idol, however, is the abode of a god—the image into which a deity may materialize.
- Extract from : « The Myths of the North American Indians » by Lewis Spence
- So the clean sweep that the Giants had been hoping for did not materialize.
- Extract from : « Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team » by Lester Chadwick
Synonyms for materialize
- actualize
- appear
- be incarnate
- be realized
- become concrete
- become real
- become visual
- coalesce
- come about
- come to pass
- corporealize
- develop
- embody
- emerge
- entify
- evolve
- exteriorize
- externalize
- happen
- hypostatize
- make real
- manifest
- metamorphose
- objectify
- occur
- personalize
- personify
- personize
- pragmatize
- realize
- reify
- substantialize
- substantiate
- symbolize
- take form
- take place
- take shape
- turn up
- typify
- unfold
- visualize
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