Synonyms of dematerialize

dematerialize

verb

ˌdē-mə-ˈtir-ē-ə-ˌlīz 

as in to disappear

to cease to be visible

the image suddenly dematerialized, and once again we were staring at a blank screen

Synonyms & Similar Words

• disappear
• vanish
• fade
• melt
• evaporate
• fly
• dissolve
• flee
• dissipate
• evanesce
• sink
• drop out of sight
• disperse
• die (away or down or out)
• blur
• dry up
• dim
• blank (out)
• clear

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• appear
• materialize
• emerge
• arrive
• issue
• come out
• show up
• break out
• loom

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dematerialize

She’s represented here by a woman dematerializing headfirst, seemingly outlived only by her pendulous breasts, and a sparse landscape where a spectral figure peeks up from the bottom edge. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026

In a dematerializing economy—where value has shifted from physical assets to intangibles such as data, software, and capabilities—traditional strategy frameworks no longer provide enough guidance. — Rita McGrath, Harvard Business Review, 4 June 2026

The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer. — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024

Hex Vision meanwhile dematerialized along with the rest of the illusion Wanda had conjured. — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 26 Oct. 2024

Their lines are strict and the palette is confined to two materials, grey granite and mirror (which dematerializes to become the view). — Town & Country, 25 Aug. 2023

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