materialize

UK: /məˈtɪəriəlaɪz/ US: /məˈtɪriəˌlaɪz/ ,(mə tēr′ē ə līz′)

Inflections of 'materialize' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

materializes

v 3rd person singular (US & UK)

materializing

v pres p (US & UK)

materialized

v past (US & UK)

materialized

v past p (US & UK)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

ma•te•ri•al•ize /məˈtɪriəˌlaɪz/   v. [no object] , -ized, -iz•ing. 

1. to become real:
   Our ideas never materialized.
2. to assume material form:
   materialized suddenly out of thin air.

ma•te•ri•al•i•za•tion /məˌtɪriəlɪˈzeɪʃən/  n. [uncountable]

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

ma•te•ri•al•ize  (mə tēr′ē ə līz′), v., -ized, -iz•ing. 
v.i. 

1. to come into perceptible existence;
   appear;
   become actual or real;
   be realized or carried out:
   Our plans never materialized.
2. to assume material or bodily form;
   become corporeal:
   The ghost materialized before Hamlet.

v.t. 

3. to give material form to;
   realize:
   to materialize an ambition.
4. to invest with material attributes:
   to materialize abstract ideas with metaphors.
5. to make physically perceptible;
   cause (a spirit or the like) to appear in bodily form.
6. to render materialistic.

Also,[esp. Brit.,] ma•te′ri•al•ise′. 

• material + -ize 1700–10

ma•te′ri•al•i•za′tion, n. 
ma•te′ri•al•iz′er, n. 
Synonyms

• 1. . emerge, show, rise, issue.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

materialize, materialise / məˈtɪərɪəˌlaɪz/ verb

1. (intransitive) to become fact; actually happen
2. to invest or become invested with a physical shape or form
3. to cause (a spirit, as of a dead person) to appear in material form or (of a spirit) to appear in such form
4. (intransitive) to take shape; become tangible

maˌterialiˈzation, maˌterialiˈsation noun

maˈterialˌizer, maˈterialˌiser noun