Materialize1. (v. t.) To make perceptible to the senses; to appear; to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
2. (v. t.) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
3. (v. t.) To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
4. (v. t.) To make visible in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.
5. (v. i.) To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
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