单词 | materialize |
释义 | materialize —materialization, n. —materializer, n. /meuh tear"ee euh luyz'/, v. , materialized, materializing. 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., materialise. [1700-10; MATERIAL + -IZE] Syn. 1. emerge, show, rise, issue. |
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