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Materialize

To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.

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Manner of action 1

Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Hap 76% connected

To clothe; to wrap.

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Happen 76% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

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Occur 76% connected

To meet; to clash.

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Materialization 74% connected

The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

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Materialization 74% connected

The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

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Offspring 74% connected

The act of production; generation.

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Offspring 74% connected

The act of production; generation.

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Synonym 1

Happen 92% connected

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dematerialize 94% connected

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.

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Dematerialize 94% connected

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.

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Abstraction adjective · 78% connection

Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.

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Atmosphere noun · 78% connection

A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invest, material, characteristics, perceptible, senses.
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Clairvoyance noun · 78% connection

A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal cond…

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Clairvoyant adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: invest, material, characteristics, perceptible, senses.
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Crown noun · 78% connection

To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.

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Electrode noun · 78% connection

The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductor…

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Enfeoff verb · 78% connection

To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoff…

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Ether noun · 78% connection

A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be…

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Exertion noun · 78% connection

The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or per…

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Faint superl. · 78% connection

Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint co…

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Fancy noun · 78% connection

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying su…

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Feeling noun · 78% connection

The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; tha…

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form noun · 78% connection

Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the eleme…

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Hypnotism noun · 78% connection

A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual…

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Ideation noun · 78% connection

The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense ar…

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Imperceptible adjective · 78% connection

Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized by the souses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended.

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Invest verb · 78% connection

To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; a…

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Lose verb · 78% connection

To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of wha…

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