unsubstantialize

An obsolete verb meaning to make something unsubstantial or to deprive of substance or reality.

• 🇫🇷Verbe vieilli signifiant rendre quelque chose non substantiel, ou priver de substance, de réalité ou de matérialité.

1. Render immaterial or incorporeal C2 formal

   To make something less substantial, tangible, or physical; to reduce to a more abstract or spiritual state.

   • The philosopher's argument sought to unsubstantialize the concept of matter.
   • In the dream, the solid walls began to unsubstantialize into mist.
   • The artist's work attempts to unsubstantialize the human form, making it ethereal.

   🇫🇷Dématérialiser

   Synonymes: dematerializedisembodyetherealizeimmaterialize

   Antonymes: concretizeembodyincarnatematerializereify

• unsubstantialised past participle
• unsubstantialized past participle
• unsubstantialised past simple
• unsubstantialized past simple
• unsubstantialising present participle
• unsubstantializing present participle
• unsubstantialises third person singular
• unsubstantializes third person singular