dematerialize

Verb
Synonyms: dematerialise

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Verb (1)

  1. become immaterial; disappearSynonyms: dematerialiseOpposite materializeMore general vanish, disappear
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

De′ma·te′ri·al·ize transitive verb

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.

Dematerializing matter by stripping it of everything which... has distinguished matter.— Henry Hart Milman

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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