MATERIALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does materialise mean? 

• MATERIALISE (verb)
  The verb MATERIALISE has 1 sense:

1. come into being; become reality

  Familiarity information: MATERIALISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATERIALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they materialise    ... he / she / it materialises   
Past simple: materialised   
Past participle: materialised   
-ing form: materialising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come into being; become reality

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

happen; materialise; materialize

Context example:

Her dream really materialized

Hypernyms (to "materialise" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "materialise"):

appear; come out (be issued or published)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

dematerialise (become immaterial; disappear)

Derivation:

materialisation (something that comes into existence as a result)

materialisation (an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit))

materialisation (the process of coming into being; becoming reality)

 Context examples 

The phantom shapes, which were becoming gradually materialised from the moonbeams, were those of the three ghostly women to whom I was doomed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then they began to materialise till—if God have not take away my reason, for I saw it through my eyes—there were before me in actual flesh the same three women that Jonathan saw in the room, when they would have kissed his throat.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)