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v. To cause to become real or actual: By building the house, we materialized a dream.

v. To cause to become materialistic: "Inequality has the natural and necessary effect . . . of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class” ( Matthew Arnold).

verb-intransitive. To assume material or effective form: Their support on the eastern flank did not materialize.

verb-intransitive. To take physical form or shape.

verb-intransitive. To appear, especially suddenly. See Synonyms at appear.

v. To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

v. To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.

v. Alternative spelling of materialise.

v. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.

v. To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.

v. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests.

v. To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.

verb-intransitive. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.

verb-intransitive. To come into existence.

To give a material form or bodily existence to; make physically perceptible; embody in any manner. See II.

To give the character of metaphysical materialism to; render materialistic.

To reduce to a material basis or standard; treat as pertaining only to matter; give a material character to; make material, low, coarse, sensual, etc.: as, to materialize thought, morality, or mythology; to materialize one's ideas or enjoyments.

To become material; assume a material form; in recent spiritualistic use, to assume, as a spirit or immaterial entity, a form which is perceptible by the senses, or one that is visible, tangible, and (in the case of supposed spirits) capable of physical exertion.

To take form or shape; come into perceptible existence; become real: as, the project has not yet materialized.

Also spelled materialise.

v. come into being; become reality

"On the other hand, regarding fiction writing in general -- art doesn't materialize from a vacuum."

spiritualize   

materialized    materializes    materializing   

hap    take place    come about    fallout    pass off    go on    happen    pass    occur   

come out    appear   

materialized    materializing   

materiate    externalize    externate    externize    exteriorize    embody    precipitate