dematerialize
verb
de·ma·te·ri·al·ize
ˌdē-mə-ˈtir-ē-ə-ˌlīz 
dematerialized; dematerializing; dematerializes
: to cause to become or appear immaterial
: to lose or appear to lose materiality
Synonyms
Examples of dematerialize in a Sentence
the image suddenly dematerialized, and once again we were staring at a blank screen
Recent Examples on the Web
Their lines are strict and the palette is confined to two materials, grey granite and mirror (which dematerializes to become the view).
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Town & Country, 25 Aug. 2023
Their mission was a lofty one: to dematerialize any barriers between themselves and the beauty of the landscape.
—ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
Imagine being able to dematerialize from your living room and show up the next moment in Venice or the Amazon rainforest or the rings of Saturn (wearing an appropriate space suit, of course).
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2014
My interest in working with materials like light, color, water, fog, and other natural phenomena grew out of my desire to dematerialize the art object, to make things that were less physical than, say, ephemeral or atmospheric.
—Time, 27 Oct. 2022
How can the most miraculous material in the history of the world, funded up the wazoo, all but dematerialize?
—WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
This is often the case with Trader Joe’s, which is famous for having products materialize and dematerialize constantly.
—Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
Polachek deploys her voice as a shape-shifting instrument: a silk rope that can curl up low and lush, or dematerialize into gossamer, or snap at the bull’s-eye of a melody.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
The staircase would seem to dematerialize in space.
—Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
Town & Country, 25 Aug. 2023
Their mission was a lofty one: to dematerialize any barriers between themselves and the beauty of the landscape.
—ELLE Decor, 24 May 2023
Imagine being able to dematerialize from your living room and show up the next moment in Venice or the Amazon rainforest or the rings of Saturn (wearing an appropriate space suit, of course).
—Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2014
My interest in working with materials like light, color, water, fog, and other natural phenomena grew out of my desire to dematerialize the art object, to make things that were less physical than, say, ephemeral or atmospheric.
—Time, 27 Oct. 2022
How can the most miraculous material in the history of the world, funded up the wazoo, all but dematerialize?
—WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
This is often the case with Trader Joe’s, which is famous for having products materialize and dematerialize constantly.
—Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
Polachek deploys her voice as a shape-shifting instrument: a silk rope that can curl up low and lush, or dematerialize into gossamer, or snap at the bull’s-eye of a melody.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
The staircase would seem to dematerialize in space.
—Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
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“Dematerialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dematerialize. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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