Verb (used with object) : to materialize an ambition. ,to materialize abstract ideas with metaphors.    From Dictionary.com. 

This power allows Elika to "materialise" an area of the environment for a short period that was previously destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Computer And Video Games] Reference

They are goblins, who have been able to 'materialise' themselves. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Miniatures] Reference

A minute passes and then Fazer and Tulisa materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [N-Dubz: 'We were naughty. We used to cause madness!'] Reference

He looked round the room as if expecting her to materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Hilt]

He said the Mpumalanga project had also failed to materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I can't materialise something out of nothing, and you don't get it.    From Wordnik.com.  [blu94anjel Diary Entry] Reference

The strike of wives, as proposed by a weekly paper, did not materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919] Reference

The imminent resource scarcity forecast in the 1970s did not materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Income from casinos is unlikely to materialise in the current financial year.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Boxing Championship, which unfortunately did not materialise, were won by Sergt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference

"A recovery in the truest sense of the word will only materialise in 2010," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany Confirms 3.8% GDP Drop] Reference

Reinforcements had been expected, but they did not materialise to an appreciable extent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919] Reference

This failed to materialise as police mounted watches over train stations and bus terminuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contents] Reference

But history suggests that, over and again, the required changes just simply don't materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Jefferson: The Problem With Bail-Outs] Reference

Owing to short-term political opportunism, the process which I envisaged failed to materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH BY ANC MP, DR MANIE SCHOEMAN DURING THE PRESIDENT�S BUDGET VOTE] Reference

For the first time the threatening vision had failed to materialise, and the fact gave him courage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

What dies and is born is a mirage -- a mere phantasm -- which you materialise for certain purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference

Rumours drifted around about accompanying the 41st division to Italy, but they did not materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919] Reference

He was ubiquitous and his men never knew when he would suddenly materialise, breathing down their necks.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Laughing Matter]

In the end it did not materialise, and those who said they would vote for the "African American" did so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

It shambles nearer, appearing so suddenly out of the gloom that it seems to materialise before her vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

'Do you want a helmet?' he said, looking around vaguely as if expecting one to materialise out of the tarmac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whip Hand]

The Lancashire northern western quarter had seemed to materialise overnight, its citizens plump, voyeuristic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Post Nearly Man] Reference

But even if these fresh problems don't materialise, Brown & Co. are still in quite a spot ahead of the Budget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

On Saturday morning I rode Touchy again but Mackie didn't materialise, having phoned Tremayne to say she wasn't well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longshot]

Yet after ten years, halfway through his third term, the progress he promised has conspicuously failed to materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look back in anger] Reference

She waited an instant for these tints to materialise, but Miss Howe's smile slid discreetly into her wine-glass instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

If there's an election next year, as is more likely, then the plan will not materialise because there won't be the money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cameron's plans crash into Brown's debt mountain] Reference

Threats of civil war, disruption of crucial services and food and other shortages after the election did not materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secretary General's Report to ANC 49th National Conference] Reference

The former want to sustain growth to cut the deficit; the government wants to cut the deficit and hopes growth will materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coalition spinmasters have learned Mandelson's tricks] Reference

She waved Lestrade into the other chair, then looked somewhat helplessly about, as if expecting a third armchair to materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter of Mary]

This could help the poor pay for modern energy supplies without having to wait for rural industrialisation opportunities to materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

That was below what the more activist of Cambodia's 273 unions demanded, although a three-day, industry-wide strike did not materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Tasini: A Worldwide Revolt Against Poverty Wages] Reference

Knowles glanced constantly at the empty far bank of the Portina as though he expected to see the whole French army suddenly materialise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Eagle]

The Lancashire northern western quarter seemed to materialise overnight its citizens plump, voyeuristic, slowly they watch every movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Post Nearly Man] Reference