Materialize

v. t.	1.	To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects. [imp. & p. p. Materialized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Materializing .] Having with wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images. - Tatler.
	2.	To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
	3.	To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
	4.	(Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; - said of spirits. A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being. - Epes Sargent.
v. i.	1.	To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
	2.	To come into existence; as, the promised donations never materialized.

Verb

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materialize - come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized" Synonyms: materialise, happen Antonyms: dematerialise, dematerialize - become immaterial; disappear

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