MEANING
1. To acquire visible or tangible physical form.
2. To appear or arrive, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
3. To happen or become real after being anticipated, planned, or promised.
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Words that belong together
- materialize from the mist
- materialize before someone
On the page
A pale apparition materialized at the end of the passage.
The imagined creature materialized as a solid figure in the story.
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Word forms
- Base
- materialize
- Past tense
- materialized
- Past participle
- materialized
- Present participle
- materializing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- materialize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are materializing
- Present perfect
- have/has materialized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been materializing
- Past
- materialized
- Past continuous
- was/were materializing
- Past perfect
- had materialized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been materializing
- Future
- will materialize
- Future continuous
- will be materializing
- Future perfect
- will have materialized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been materializing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: materialize; materializes; materialized; materialized; materializing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: materializes.
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