to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out

Our plans never materialized.

to assume material or bodily form; become corporeal

The ghost materialized before Hamlet.

to give material form to; realize

to materialize an ambition.

to invest with material attributes

to materialize abstract ideas with metaphors.

to make physically perceptible; cause (a spirit or the like) to appear in bodily form.

to render materialistic.

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actualization , being , realization , consummation , culmination , fruition , exteriorization , externalization , incarnation , manifestation , objectification , personalization , personification , substantiation , type