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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
materialize
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
never
▪ An expected backlash against the initiative in Quebec never materialized.
▪ Suffice to say, a comeback never materialized.
▪ Without loving contact in infancy and early childhood, a sense of human connectedness may never materialize.
▪ But ironically, a storm that never materialized created the most controversy.
▪ Two weeks later, Gretzky was headed to the New York Rangers, according to reports, but a trade never materialized.
▪ And the much-touted Year of the Woman at the awards ceremony never materialized, either.
▪ Conflicts were expected, but they never materialized, at least publicly, because Perranoski stayed in the background.
▪ Hoped-for rents never materialized, and a complex financial situation became even more difficult to control.
■ VERB
fail
▪ Literature and autobiography are liberally sprinkled with accounts of the indignation and outrage felt when such a promise fails to materialize.
▪ This rapid increase failed to materialize, however.
▪ The position she had been promised failed to materialize at the last moment.
▪ Nor did it help matters when teaching aids, promised by Peace Corps / Washington, would sometimes fail to materialize.
▪ But the predicted crowds of shoppers for the 186, 000-square-foot complex have failed to materialize.
▪ If that return failed to materialize, they would have to dip into their own budgets to repay the loan.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A row of huts materialized out of the fog as we approached.
▪ It was rumoured that Apple would be sold to Sun Microsystems, but that deal never materialized.
▪ The promised recovery failed to materialize and unemployment kept on rising.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At some point a man in a neat suit materialized.
▪ Gilbert reappeared, sans Bob, but accompanied by Kevin who had materialized out of nowhere.
▪ Literature and autobiography are liberally sprinkled with accounts of the indignation and outrage felt when such a promise fails to materialize.
▪ There was too little room and only the performances were materializing.
▪ Whether or not a fourth Odyssey will materialize depends on factors beyond my control.
▪ While the threat of wholesale destruction failed to materialize, the cathedrals were turned over to a variety of secular uses.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Materialize

Materialize \Ma*te"ri*al*ize\, v. i.

  1. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.

  2. To come into existence; as, the promised donations never materialized.

Materialize

Materialize \Ma*te"ri*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Materialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Materializing.] [Cf. F. mat['e]rialiser.]

  1. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.

    Having with wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images.
    --Tatler.

  2. To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.

  3. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.

  4. (Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.

    A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being.
    --Epes Sargent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
materialize

1710, "represent as material," from material (adj.) + -ize. Meaning “appear in bodily form” is 1880, in spiritualism. Related: Materialized; materializing.

Wiktionary
materialize

alt. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear. 2 (context intransitive English) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere. 3 (context transitive English) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear. 2 (context intransitive English) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere. 3 (context transitive English) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.

WordNet
materialize

v. come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized" [syn: happen, materialise] [ant: dematerialize, dematerialize]

Usage examples of "materialize".

Up ahead, barely visible in the rain-swept fogged plastic of the aft canopy, the dark gray shape of the carrier Shaoguan materialized out of the clouds, the deck of the ship seeming impossibly small in the vast waters below.

Two camo-fatigued shapes materialized at his side so suddenly Batman started.

When we left the dahabeeyah, Anubis materialized out of somewhere, as cats do, and followed us down the gangplank.

Abreast of his trailer, he left the ditch and wove his way speedily toward home through the dense underbrush, in which the only person he ever encountered was Captain Flume, who, drawn and ghostly, frightened him half to death one twilight by materializing without warning out of a patch of dewberry bushes to complain that Chief White Halfoat had threatened to slit his throat open from ear to ear.

A few minutes later, a black-cloaked figure materialized itself in the little room where Nick Hemble lived.

And before any protest could materialize from the inebriated Owen, she was on her feet.

Zink made mirage-holes near their feet and Jama materialized flying swords for them to duck.

Talika, Chekov, Kaul, and three archaeological technicians materialized next.

The kinetics you so desperately need cannot materialize to help you meet your schedule.

The image was gone as suddenly as it had materialized, but he was aware of Leck screaming abusively and tumbling off the windowsill, while he himself was falling off his chair.

The smile faded when an image of Habish threatening Mana materialized.

Along with Mudd, they materialized near a low building, less than half its domed top showing above the surface dunes.

The group materialized on the parade ground which was the center of the complex of buildings composing the palace of Nummer Ein.

King Oary somehow anticipated magic that he thought might greatly enhance his power and was very angry when that magic did not materialize.

Wally beta-tested a new pun he was working up, to the effect that if the promised paperless digital world ever materialized, writers would all be The Artists Formerly Known In Prints.