DEMATERIALIZE Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

dematerialize

verb

ˌdē-mə-ˈtir-ē-ə-ˌlīz

Definition of dematerialize

as in to disappear

to cease to be visible the image suddenly dematerialized, and once again we were staring at a blank screen

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Recent Examples of dematerialize She’s represented here by a woman dematerializing headfirst, seemingly outlived only by her pendulous breasts, and a sparse landscape where a spectral figure peeks up from the bottom edge. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026 In a dematerializing economy—where value has shifted from physical assets to intangibles such as data, software, and capabilities—traditional strategy frameworks no longer provide enough guidance. — Rita McGrath, Harvard Business Review, 4 June 2026 The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer. — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024 Hex Vision meanwhile dematerialized along with the rest of the illusion Wanda had conjured. — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 26 Oct. 2024 Their lines are strict and the palette is confined to two materials, grey granite and mirror (which dematerializes to become the view). — Town & Country, 25 Aug. 2023 My interest in working with materials like light, color, water, fog, and other natural phenomena grew out of my desire to dematerialize the art object, to make things that were less physical than, say, ephemeral or atmospheric. — Time, 27 Oct. 2022 How can the most miraculous material in the history of the world, funded up the wazoo, all but dematerialize? — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022

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To shoppers, the chain disappears, until next September or so, when another store pops up somewhere in the neighborhood.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Two experienced military observers described a silent craft that performed abrupt maneuvers before disappearing.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of disappear

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Enamel is created while teeth are still developing under the gums, and the cells that produce it, known as ameloblasts, break down and vanish once a tooth erupts.

— Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Stocks of Wi-Fi routers, insulin pumps, pacemakers, and credit-card readers, along with cars and dishwashers, would dwindle and perhaps vanish.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of vanish

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That terrible scenario that doesn't easily fade definitely caused everyone to believe Quinn was at it again on Monday night – messing up again, forgetting that the last play was fourth down instead of third down.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Yet, in the urban South, recent linguistic research finds that the drawl’s most salient features are starting to fade on the lips of young speakers.

— Valerie M. Fridland, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026

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