dematerialize

verb

ˌdē-mə-ˈtir-ē-ə-ˌlīz How to pronounce dematerialize (audio)
Definition of dematerializenext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dematerialize
  1. disappear
  2. vanish
  3. fade
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  • That money has largely disappeared and billions in central bank reserves remain frozen by the US and its allies over the Taliban’s rights record.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • For Minimalists Specs AccordionItemContainerButton Sheer curtains don’t have to disappear into the background.
    — Nina Derwin, Architectural Digest, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of disappear
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  • In Sarah Pekkanen’s new thriller, The Women in White, a young health-care aide probes how four female participants in a 1964 parapsychology experiment suddenly vanished.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In August 2025, the remains of a British researcher who vanished in 1959 in Antarctica were discovered amid rocks near a receding glacier on King George Island, located off the Antarctic Peninsula.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of vanish
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  • Similar bouts of traders closing short positions in early June and early July initially pushed prices higher before the gains eventually faded.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Isabelle Huppert and Virginie Efira led Farhadi’s French-language Parallel Tales, a film about Sylvie (Huppert), a fading novelist in search of inspiration for her next book, who starts spying on her neighbors across the street.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of fade

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“Dematerialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dematerialize. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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