dematerialize
- v become immaterial; disappear
- Donovan teases out the paradoxes of matter like for instance that greater density can make certain things dematerialize.
- Everyone has had a pal who is more trouble than he's worth; the kid who gets you into scrapes only to dematerialize just when the teacher catches you suspending a bucket of water .
- Again and again he toys with the idea of buildings that seem to dematerialize, that play hide and seek as you approach them.