dematerialize

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
25
Words With Friends
27
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/ˌdiː.məˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə.laɪz/(UK)
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/ˌdiː.məˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə.laɪz/(UK) · /ˌdi.məˈtɪɹ.i.ə.laɪz/(US)

Definition of dematerialize

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive)To disappear by becoming immaterial.
    “Nightmares were, after all, a type of demon; they could dematerialize in much the way Fiant did.”
    “"So, I'll need you to look at the nth field targeting so when the object dematerializes from here, we can rematerialize it there."”
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verb

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive)To disappear by becoming immaterial.
    “Nightmares were, after all, a type of demon; they could dematerialize in much the way Fiant did.”
    “"So, I'll need you to look at the nth field targeting so when the object dematerializes from here, we can rematerialize it there."”
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive)To cause something to disappear by making it immaterial.
    “Some magicians claim they can dematerialize their bodies and re-materialize them in a different location.”
  3. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive)To remove the physical materials from (a process, etc.).
    “Even though the book is still a difficult object to dematerialize and the paper books are not replaceable, the trend seems to be to prefer an e-book rather than a physical book […]”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From de- + materialize.

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