"materialise" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: materialises [present, singular, third-person], materialising [participle, present], materialised [participle, past], materialised [past]
Etymology: From material + -ise; compare with French matérialiser. Etymology templates: {{af|en|material|-ise}} material + -ise, {{cog|fr|matérialiser}} French matérialiser Head templates: {{en-verb}} materialise (third-person singular simple present materialises, present participle materialising, simple past and past participle materialised)
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of materialize. Tags: UK, alt-of, nonstandard Alternative form of: materialize

Inflected forms

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          "text": "J H Thomas, the union's general secretary, argued in a letter to union reps on September 23 [1919] that \"the long-made promise of a better world for railwaymen which was made at the time of the nation's crisis, and accepted by the railwaymen as an offer that would ultimately bear fruit, has not materialised\".",
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