Usually means: Make something become real, tangible.
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  1. materialize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. materialize: Merriam-Webster
  3. materialize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. materialize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. materialize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. materialize: Vocabulary.com
  7. Materialize, materialize: Wordnik
  8. materialize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. materialize: Wiktionary
  10. materialize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. materialize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. materialize: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Materialize, materialize: Dictionary.com
  14. materialize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Materialize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Materialize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. materialize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. materialize: Rhymezone
  19. materialize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. materialize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. materialize: FreeDictionary.org
  22. materialize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. materialize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. materialize: Legal dictionary

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  1. materialize: Encyclopedia

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  1. materialize: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
verb:  (intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
verb:  (intransitive) To become real (of a plan, idea, etc.); to come to fruition.
verb:  (transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
verb:  (transitive, databases) To perform materialization; to save the results of a database query as a temporary table or materialized view.

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