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A mere idealist forced to disappear (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dematerialise

'disappear' is the definition.
('disappear'->'dematerialize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

'a mere idealist forced' is the wordplay.
'forced' indicates an anagram.
'a'+'mere'+'idealist'='amereidealist'
'amereidealist' is an anagram of 'DEMATERIALISE'.

'to' is the link.

(Other definitions for dematerialise that I've seen before include "Lose physical presence" , "Cease to have physical presence" , "Vanish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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