to dematerialize

Examples

• All

• "I have been thinking that the altogether smartest thing would be to dematerialize—and then rematerialize in the New World.

  Fiction book (1990)

• N2: Spock activates the transporter and Kirk dematerializes and finds himself back aboard the Enterprise!

  Academic text (2009)

• Suddenly, the wonderful food tray started to dematerialize.

  Fiction book (1999)

• We might have been able to dematerialize and rematerialize at will.

  Fiction book (1990)

• At the end of my last show, I, uh, dematerialized my assistant.

  Terror Train (1980)

• Todor can dematerialize, transport his molecules to another location and reassemble them in his present form.

  The Hybrids Family (2016)

• The instant before he slams into the street, his body dematerializes.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Larger buildings were anonymous and recessive, upstaged and dematerialized by the displays.

  Academic text (1998)

• Soran reaches down and grabs the unconscious La Forge by the collar, and the two of them dematerialize.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Transformed into a burst of dematerialized energy, his figure swirls fluidly upward like a dark flame.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

D

to disappear

vsto dematerialize

∞ 1.0

To stop being seen or to no longer be there

specifies loss of physical form rather than any abstract disappearance

V

to vanish

vsto dematerialize

421 3.0

Disappear suddenly and completely for no clear reason

is about losing physical substance rather than only a sudden disappearance

D

to dissolve

vsto dematerialize

43 3.9

To slowly disappear or become less clear

involves loss of physical substance rather than a slow fading process

V

to vaporize

vsto dematerialize

• Informal

4 5.6

To disappear or fall very quickly, for example when money loses value

means becoming nonphysical rather than a rapid loss in amount or value

V

to vanish off the face of the earth

vsto dematerialize

• Informal

1 8.1

Disappear completely so no one knows what happened and no sign is left

focuses on ceasing to have physical form rather than being utterly untraceable

I

to immaterialize

vsto dematerialize

9.9

To make something lose its physical form and seem to disappear

means the same but is an alternative formal wording

Antonyms

M

to materialize

63 5.8

To become real or happen as hoped

How Material

to vanish

421 3.0

to dematerialize

• US

5 9.6

to fade

531 1.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology