Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To deprive of physical substance; make immaterial.
- intransitive verb To reduce the amount of material required for (a product or process).
- intransitive verb To convert (records, for example) from paper to digital or electronic form.
- intransitive verb To lose physical substance; become immaterial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divest of material qualities or characteristics.
- In mod. spiritualism, to dissolve and disappear, as alleged, after materialization.
- Also spelled
dematerialise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive to
disappear by becomingimmaterial - verb transitive to
cause something to disappear by becoming immaterial
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become immaterial; disappear
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Examples
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Instead, she arrives just in time to watch Taguchi hang himself, then dematerialize through a wall, leaving a sooty black burn-and the disc.
John Farr: Going Bump in the Night: More Prime Halloween Movie Fare John Farr 2010
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Instead, she arrives just in time to watch Taguchi hang himself, then dematerialize through a wall, leaving a sooty black burn-and the disc.
John Farr: Going Bump in the Night: More Prime Halloween Movie Fare John Farr 2010
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Yotes have circled the carcass while I was dressing on more than a few occasions, and I've seen just little glimpses of them as the dematerialize back into the cover when I'm approaching the kill.
Couple years ago i shot a doe in the morning and got some blood on my pants while gutting it. 2009
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Yotes have circled the carcass while I was dressing on more than a few occasions, and I've seen just little glimpses of them as the dematerialize back into the cover when I'm approaching the kill.
Couple years ago i shot a doe in the morning and got some blood on my pants while gutting it. 2009
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You don't dematerialize and reappear; you travel through time and space to your destination.
Why Time Travel Won't Be Like the Movies Brian Clegg 2011
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This allows us to successfully dematerialize and then rematerialize the object.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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You can't do this everywhere—that would be overkill—but layering helps dematerialize solid surfaces and makes small, eccentric spaces feel rich.
The Lived-In Look Jen Renzi 2011
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Sleekly groomed staff materialize and dematerialize, like the best English butlers.
Style Icon Lennox Morrison 2010
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To prove that even without the ability among other things to bench press 700 pounds, dematerialize or retract one's teeth humans are...creative, competent, can kick a*s and have...resolve!
Wanted orannia 2010
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To prove that even without the ability among other things to bench press 700 pounds, dematerialize or retract one's teeth humans are...creative, competent, can kick a*s and have...resolve!
Archive 2010-05-01 orannia 2010
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