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Definition of MATERIALIZE

1

to come into existence <the business speculator promised profits that never seemed to materialize>

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

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

Antonyms cease, end, stop

2

to come into view <the train station materialized through the fog>

Synonyms come out, materialize, show, show up, turn up, unfold

Related Words reappear, resurface; bulk, loom; arrive, come; dawn, debut; arise, blossom, bob (up), break, break out, crop (up), emerge, erupt, issue, outcrop, rise, shoot (up), spring (up), surface; happen, occur; reappear, rematerialize

Near Antonyms depart, leave, retire, withdraw

Antonyms clear, disappear, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate, fade, go (away), melt (away), vanish

3

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly <an unforeseen problem with this project seems to have materialized>

Synonyms come up, crop (up), emerge, materialize, spring (up), surface

Related Words appear, come out, show up, turn up; chance, come, come about, fall out, go (on), go off, hap, happen, occur, pass, transpire; interfere, interpose, intervene, intrude

4

to represent in visible form <a statue of a grieving woman that seems to materialize the very concept of grief>

Synonyms body, epitomize, express, externalize, incarnate, incorporate, instantiate, manifest, materialize, personalize, personify, substantiate

Related Words actualize, concretize, realize; exemplify, illustrate, image, objectify, symbolize, typify

Antonyms disembody