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materialize - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'materialize' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Materialize [ v. i.]
- To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
2 . Materialize [ 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.
- To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
- To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
- To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.

Meaning of 'materialize' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . materialize [ v]
Meaning (1):
- come into being; become reality
Example in sentence:
  • Her dream really materialized