Definition:
- (v. t.) To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
- (v. t.) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
- (v. t.) To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
- (v. t.) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.
- (v. i.) To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
Compare materialize with other words:
materialize vs. materialized
materialize vs. realize
happen vs. materialize
material vs. materialize