Crossword-Solution: DEMATERIALIZE 13 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 25

However successfully John Smith might dematerialize into nothingness—Maggie Duff can’t.” “No, I know she can’t,” admitted Miss Maggie soberly.

Now, if the death of a medium should be absolutely instantaneous, the spirit might, indeed, be unable to dematerialize, and might even succeed to the medium's earth life, as you suggest.

The trouble with the theory--and it seems to me a fatal one--is, that death is almost never, if indeed it is ever, absolutely instantaneous but only comparatively so; and it seems to me that the least possible interval of time would be sufficient to enable the spirit to dematerialize.

The fourth phase of the battle consisted of mopping-up operations in which individual ships were hunted down and destroyed by the simple process of a Kandarian ship seeming to materialize from nowhere a mile or half a mile from an enemy, launching one missile and seeming to dematerialize again and vanish.

This was to step into the open coffin--that box, as he said--"from which your friends, your neighbors, can see you dematerialize and return to nothingness." "Come, my friends," he continued, in his ironical tones, "this is a fine thing; it will permit your best friends to see you deliquesce! Are there any married people here? It is only a question of tasting, in advance, the pleasures of a widowhood.