The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dematerialize \De`ma*te"ri*al*ize\, v. t. To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.
Dematerializing matter by stripping it of everything
which . . . has distinguished matter.
--Milman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1884; see de- + materialize.\nRelated: Dematerialized; dematerializing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to disappear by becoming immaterial. 2 (context transitive English) to cause something to disappear by becoming immaterial. 3 (context transitive English) to remove the physical materials from (a process, etc.)
WordNet
v. become immaterial; disappear [syn: dematerialise] [ant: happen, happen]
Usage examples of "dematerialize".
There were alarms on all the doors, set to go off if they were opened, so I was forced to dematerialize to get out.
He watched patiently until darkness, then used his ability to dematerialize to pass the barrier that Xylina had created around the camp.
I will grant you that I can probably dematerialize and steal some kind of mount before I have to go too far afoot.
It will take timeeven if I dematerialize, I cannot fly, I must move as any ordinary being can, even if I can steal a mountit would still be better to wait until we have returned home, and we can look in the slave markets together.
He started to dematerialize, then thought better of it and glanced at Claire.
Vampires can dematerialize at will, though they must be able to calm themselves and concentrate to do so and may not carry anything heavy with them.
Rhage to dematerialize to her than have the cop drive her home to him.
Like any vampire worth his salt, he could dematerialize at will and travel over vast distances, but that was a hard trick to pull off if you had to carry anything heavy.
Only that would keep it material, or enable her to dematerialize with it.
It seemed the demon could not dematerialize very effectively in a world where everything was already immaterial.
And that makes me think that the disrupt or dematerialize settings should be able to send this horror back to whatever hell it crawled out of.
Even if I dematerialized and traveled with you in that state, it still would not explain the absence of Ware.
He paused, half dematerialized, and stared across the park at the diorama of the Neanderthalers driving a herd of ibex off a cliff.
The thief dematerialized five times rather quickly as the two cheetahs worked an inwardly spiraling pattern, pressing him toward a center where the panther waited patiently.
Because Fiant was dematerialized, he passed right through the peephole, headfirst.