materialize

ma·te·ri·al·ize

verb \mə-ˈtir-ē-ə-ˌlīz\

ma·te·ri·al·izedma·te·ri·al·iz·ing

Definition of MATERIALIZE

transitive verb

1

a : to make material : objectify

b : to cause to appear in bodily form <materialize the spirits of the dead>

2

: to cause to be materialistic

intransitive verb

1

: to assume bodily form

2

a : to appear especially suddenly

b : to come into existence

— ma·te·ri·al·iz·er noun

Examples of MATERIALIZE

1. A waiter suddenly materialized beside our table.
2. Rain clouds materialized on the horizon.

First Known Use of MATERIALIZE

1710

Related to MATERIALIZE

Synonyms

actualize, appear, arise, break, commence, dawn, engender, form, begin, originate, set in, spring, start

Antonyms

cease, end, stop

Related Words

be, breathe, exist, live, subsist; arrive, come on, emerge; coalesce, cohere, shape (up); continue, endure, last, persist, survive

Near Antonyms

conclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminate; disappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanish; depart, die, expire, pass away, perish

Rhymes with MATERIALIZE

Americanize, apotheosize, colonialize, compartmentalize, conceptualize, consolation prize, contextualize, decriminalize, delegitimize, demilitarize, denaturalize, departmentalize, depoliticize, desexualize, epigrammatize, etymologize, Europeanize, exteriorize, ideologize, individualize, industrialize, internationalize, legitimatize, memorialize, miniaturize, politicalize, private enterprise, professionalize, psychoanalyze, revolutionize, self-actualize, sensationalize, sentimentalize, spiritualize, underutilize, universalize