materialise

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A form of materialize — To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

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Meanings

verbmaterialise (third-person singular simple present materialises, present participle materialising, simple past and past participle materialised)

present singular third person materialises · participle present materialising · participle past materialised · past materialised

  1. UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialize.

    Camara was the Paok equivalent of Bruno Fernandes: a playmaker adept at materialising in pockets and running his team.

    2024 November 7, Jamie Jackson, “Amad Diallo ends Manchester United’s European drought by seeing off Paok”, in The Guardian
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    Therefore, the new standard design in fact has materialised as a 4-6-2 with two 20 in. cylinders and a boiler pressure of 250 lb. per sq. in.

    1951 April 28, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 272

    Third, while there is no immediate risk of Greece being kicked out of the club, such a threat could materialise if German taxpayers were to cut up rough and exert real political pressure on Angela Merkel's government.

    2011 June 21, Larry Elliott, The Guardian

    In the old Irish folklore, this is a land where no one gets old or sick and where heroes live in comfort and tranquillity. But the land of Tír na nÓg only materialises to mere mortals at certain times, under certain circumstances.

    2013, John Jacob English, Fragile Blue, AuthorHouse, page 40

    J H Thomas, the union's general secretary, argued in a letter to union reps on September 23 [1919] that "the long-made promise of a better world for railwaymen which was made at the time of the nation's crisis, and accepted by the railwaymen as an offer that would ultimately bear fruit, has not materialised".

    2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in RAIL, page 51

Synonyms & antonyms

verbcome into being; become reality

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

materialise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/materialise

MLA

“materialise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/materialise. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “materialise,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/materialise.

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