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单词 dematerialized
释义

dematerialize

verb

de·​ma·​te·​ri·​al·​ize ˌdē-mə-ˈtir-ē-ə-ˌlīz How to pronounce dematerialize (audio)
dematerialized; dematerializing; dematerializes

transitive verb

: to cause to become or appear immaterial

intransitive verb

: to lose or appear to lose materiality
dematerialization
ˌdē-mə-ˌtir-ē-ə-lə-ˈzā-shən How to pronounce dematerialize (audio)
noun

Synonyms

  • disappear
  • dissolve
  • evanesce
  • evaporate
  • fade
  • flee
  • fly
  • melt
  • sink
  • vanish
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Example Sentences

the image suddenly dematerialized, and once again we were staring at a blank screen
Recent Examples on the Web How can the most miraculous material in the history of the world, funded up the wazoo, all but dematerialize? WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022 This is often the case with Trader Joe’s, which is famous for having products materialize and dematerialize constantly. Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022 Polachek deploys her voice as a shape-shifting instrument: a silk rope that can curl up low and lush, or dematerialize into gossamer, or snap at the bull’s-eye of a melody. Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021 The staircase would seem to dematerialize in space. Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020 And how James Cameron thanked him with a befuddled glance toward the heavens, as if his lead actor had dematerialized into stardust? Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2020 The movie’s expressive moments—and there are many—are largely uprooted, decontextualized, and dematerialized, planted like index cards rather than allowed to unfold and to develop. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019 Last remaining human Prince fan is honored by bots and then ritually dematerialized. Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019 When Man Ray used slatted light, for example, the bands of light and dark gloriously dematerialize the woman’s skin with whirls of illumination. Arthur Lubow, New York Times, 25 July 2019 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1864, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

dematerialized

verb

past tense of dematerialize
as in vanished
to cease to be visible the image suddenly dematerialized, and once again we were staring at a blank screen

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • vanished
  • disappeared
  • faded
  • melted
  • evaporated
  • dissolved
  • fled
  • dissipated
  • flew
  • dispersed
  • blurred
  • sunk
  • evanesced
  • sank
  • dropped out of sight
  • cleared
  • dried up
  • dimmed
  • blanked (out)
  • died (away or down or out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • materialized
  • appeared
  • issued
  • emerged
  • arrived
  • broke out
  • loomed
  • came out
  • showed up
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