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MATERIALISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they materialise ... he / she / it materialises
Past simple: materialised
Past participle: materialised
-ing form: materialising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come into being; become reality
Example:
Her dream really materialized
Synonyms:
happen; materialise; materialize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "materialise" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "materialise"):
appear; come out (be issued or published)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Antonym:
dematerialise (become immaterial; disappear)
Derivation:
materialisation (something that comes into existence as a result)
materialisation (an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit))
materialisation (the process of coming into being; becoming reality)
