Dictionary  ma•te•ri•al•izePronunciation: (mu-tēr'ē-u-līz"), [key] —v., -ized, -iz•ing. —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. 1. to give material form to; realize: to materialize an ambition. 2. to invest with material attributes: to materialize abstract ideas with metaphors. 3. to make physically perceptible; cause (a spirit or the like) to appear in bodily form. 4. to render materialistic. Also, esp. Brit.,ma•te'ri•al•ise". Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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