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. |
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; | |
4. | (Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; - said of spirits. | |
v. i. | 1. | To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. |
2. | To come into existence; |
Verb | 1. | materialize - come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized" Synonyms: materialise, happen Antonyms: dematerialise, dematerialize - become immaterial; disappear |