materialize: Meaning and Definition of

ma•te•ri•al•ize

1. to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
2. to assume material or bodily form; become corporeal: The ghost materialized before Hamlet.

1. to give material form to; realize: to materialize an ambition.
2. to invest with material attributes: to materialize abstract ideas with metaphors.
3. to make physically perceptible; cause (a spirit or the like) to appear in bodily form.
4. to render materialistic.