- to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- to assume material or bodily form; become corporeal: The ghost materialized before Hamlet.
- to give material form to; realize: to materialize an ambition.
- to invest with material attributes: to materialize abstract ideas with metaphors.
- to make physically perceptible; cause (a spirit or the like) to appear in bodily form.
- to render materialistic.
- to become fact; actually happen
- to invest or become invested with a physical shape or form
- to cause (a spirit, as of a dead person) to appear in material form or (of a spirit) to appear in such form
- to take shape; become tangible
- to form (material particles) from energy, as in pair production
