MEANING
To disappear as though losing material form or physical presence.
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Words that belong together
- dematerialize before someone
- dematerialize into mist
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The apparition dematerialized when the lamp was lit.
Its fingers dematerialized before they reached the latch.
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Word forms
- Base
- dematerialize
- Past tense
- dematerialized
- Past participle
- dematerialized
- Present participle
- dematerializing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- dematerialize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are dematerializing
- Present perfect
- have/has dematerialized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been dematerializing
- Past
- dematerialized
- Past continuous
- was/were dematerializing
- Past perfect
- had dematerialized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been dematerializing
- Future
- will dematerialize
- Future continuous
- will be dematerializing
- Future perfect
- will have dematerialized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been dematerializing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: dematerialize; dematerializes; dematerialized; dematerialized; dematerializing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: dematerializes.
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