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  • verb Alternative spelling of dematerialize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb become immaterial; disappear

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Examples

  • While his advertisements suggested that sometimes he could "dematerialise", he never claimed supernatural powers; he described in books how he opened handcuffs with careful pressure, or hidden picks, and expanded his limbs to get wiggle room from his bonds.

    unknown title 2009

  • As the story progresses we learn that the cause of the element dematerialisation was caused by a child shouting to the heavens "I wish the earth will disappear" this awoken something that was in the 11th dimension which has cause all the elements in earth to dematerialise and move to nega earth.

    Suspension of Disbelief....Failing... Big Jim 2010

  • As the story progresses we learn that the cause of the element dematerialisation was caused by a child shouting to the heavens "I wish the earth will disappear" this awoken something that was in the 11th dimension which has cause all the elements in earth to dematerialise and move to nega earth.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Big Jim 2010

  • Any object coming within its range would dematerialise and be converted back again in some other location.

    Good Night, Mrs. Calabash 2010

  • Notice in particular that certain physical bodies (particles) may dematerialise, but that is not inconsistent with the postulate of permanence since such a dematerialisation leaves an energy trace (which is not true of Black's ball).

    Supertasks Laraudogoitia, Jon Pérez 2004

  • The Johannesburg Stock Exchange expected to be able to dematerialise the first shares in its Share Transactions Totally

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The Akon Central Station transmitter must have generated an incredible burst of power to be able to dematerialise the considerable mass of the spaceship and take it over in the form of extra-dimensional pulses.

    Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976

  • Who knows, they may even die and then dematerialise.

    Starless Realm Ernsting, Walter 1976

  • The TTT was designed to dematerialise objects that were placed under its effect and rematerialise them again at another predetermined destination.

    Phantom Fleet Ernsting, Walter 1976

  • But then the Druufs had appeared with their ships, which did not dematerialise but simply exceeded the speed of light and flew onwards.

    Blazing Sun Ernsting, Walter 1975

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