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materialize

verb

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1 to come into existence

the business speculator promised profits that never seemed to materialize

Synonyms of materialize

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

Words Related to materialize

be, breathe, exist, live, subsist

arrive, come on, emerge

coalesce, cohere, shape (up)

continue, endure, last, persist, survive

Near Antonyms of materialize

conclude, desist, discontinue, finish, halt, quit, terminate

disappear, dissolve, evaporate, vanish

depart, die, expire, pass away, perish

Antonyms of materialize

cease, end, stop

2 to come into view

the train station materialized through the fog

Synonyms of materialize

appear, come out, show, show up, turn up, unfold

Words Related to materialize

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 of materialize

depart, leave, retire, withdraw

Antonyms of materialize

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 of materialize

arise, come up, crop (up), emerge, spring (up), surface

Words Related to materialize

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 of materialize

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

Words Related to materialize

actualize, concretize, realize

exemplify, illustrate, image, objectify, symbolize, typify

Antonyms of materialize

disembody

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