ma ‧ te ‧ ri ‧ al ‧ ize BrE AmE ( also materialise British English ) /məˈtɪəriəlaɪz $ -ˈtɪr-/ verb [intransitive]
[ Word Family: noun : ↑ material , ↑ materialism , ↑ materialist , MATERIALS , ↑ materialization ; adjective : ↑ material , ↑ immaterial , ↑ materialistic , ↑ materialist ; adverb : ↑ materialistically , ↑ materially ; verb : ↑ materialize ]
1 . to happen or appear in the way that you expected:
Problems were expected, but they never materialized.
The money we had been promised failed to materialize.
2 . to appear in an unexpected and strange way:
The figure of a man suddenly materialized in the shadows.
—materialization /məˌtɪəriəlaɪˈzeɪʃ ə n $ -lə-/ noun [uncountable]