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- pronunciation:
- m
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laIz
- parts of speech:
- intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
materializes, materializing, materialized |
| definition 1: |
to take bodily shape and form; come into physical existence.
There was nothing there, and then suddenly the alien materialized before our eyes.- antonyms:
- disappear, evanesce, evaporate, vanish
- similar words:
- appear, emerge, form, loom, rise
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| definition 2: |
to become fact; be realized.
It was her plan to become a novelist, but her hopes never materialized.- synonyms:
- come to pass
- antonyms:
- vanish
- similar words:
- happen, occur, take place
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| related words: |
offer, organize, shape, walk |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to give shape or form to.
- synonyms:
- actualize, realize, substantiate
- similar words:
- accomplish, achieve, attain, concretize, effect
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| definition 2: |
to endow with material attributes.
- synonyms:
- incorporate
- similar words:
- incarnate, objectify, personify, reify
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| related words: |
embody |
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| derivation: |
materialization (n.) |
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