[
UK
/sˈʌblɪmˌeɪt/
]
VERB
- make more subtle or refined
- vaporize and then condense right back again
- direct energy or urges into useful activities
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remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
purify the water -
change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
some salts sublime when heated
sublime iodine
ADJECTIVE
- made pure
NOUN
- the product of vaporization of a solid
How To Use sublimate In A Sentence
- In the freeze-drying process, vitrification (also termed eutectic solidification) occurs in the unfrozen fraction between the ice crystals which are sublimated in an endothermic process. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- She'd just have to sublimate the urge, turn it back into the building. FOLLY
- Terrified lest his secret be made public, and turn him into an object of scorn, he managed to sublimate these fears and transform them into the stuff of comedy.
- And I believe that when corrosive sublimate is slow in taking hold, alternate dressings of peroxide of hydrogen are just the thing. Chapter 15
- The subchloride of mercury, calomel, is the great British specific; the protochloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, kills like arsenic, but no chemist could have told us it would be so. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
- By Joerg Colberg on January 28, 2004 5: 36 PM sublimate is one of those weblogs that I should have linked to a long time ago. coincidences Conscientious: Weblogs: January 2004 Archives
- Attachment to the wealth in any form is to be sublimated by realization that all the wealth is illusory and the real Lord is our indwelling Self in everything.
- Only a windlike chant would do -- something with an undertone of human despair, outsoared by brave, savage flights of invincible soul-hope -- great virile singing man-cries, winged as the starlight, weird as space -- Whitman sublimated, David's soul poured out in symphony. The River and I
- In other words, Glen created Glenda in order to sublimate his repressed sexual/maternal desires, and compensate for a lack of female attention.
- a varied class of thoughts, active, although repressed as out of harmony with the selected life of consciousness; layer after layer, new sets of motives underlying motives were laid bare, and each patient's interest was strongly enlisted in the task of learning to know himself in order more truly and wisely to "sublimate" himself. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex