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.

verb

actualize , appear , become concrete , become real , become visual , be incarnate , be realized , coalesce , come about , come to pass , corporealize , develop , embody , emerge , entify , evolve , exteriorize , externalize , happen , hypostatize , make real , manifest , metamorphose , objectify , occur , personalize , personify , personize , pragmatize , realize , reify , substantialize , substantiate , symbolize , take form , take place , take shape , turn up , typify , unfold , visualize , body forth , incarnate , issue , loom , show , concretize , emanate , energize , rise , shape