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Word: sublimate (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Verb:

  • archaic To raise to a place of honor.
  • physics To change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state (''transitive'' or ''intransitive'')
  • To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.
  • psychoanalysis To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity.

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