tr. & intr.v., -ized, -iz·ing, -iz·es.
To deprive of or lose apparent physical substance; make or become immaterial: Mirrors have the effect of dematerializing a wall. The dry ice seemed to dematerialize as it sublimated.
dematerialization de'ma·te'ri·al·i·za'tion (-ə-lĭ-zā'shən) n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
