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1. sublimate
verb. make more subtle or refined.
Synonyms
- alter
- modify
- change
- subtilize
Antonyms
- dejected
- increase
- deconcentrate
- destabilize
Featured Games
2. sublimate
verb. change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting.
Synonyms
- gasify
- vaporize
- aerify
- vaporise
Antonyms
- inadvisable
- badness
- bad
- minor
3. sublimate
noun. the product of vaporization of a solid.
Synonyms
- gas
- mercury chloride
- bichloride of mercury
- mercuric chloride
Antonyms
- rehabilitate
- falsify
- uglify
- break
4. sublimate
verb. remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation.
Synonyms
- purge
- rectify
- better
- amend
- make pure
- improve
- meliorate
- refine
- distil
- ameliorate
- distill
Antonyms
- expand
- strengthen
- ignoble
- inglorious
5. sublimate
adjective. made pure.
Antonyms
- keep down
6. sublimate
verb. vaporize and then condense right back again.
Synonyms
- evaporate
- sublime
- vaporize
- change
- resublime
- vaporise
Antonyms
- deprive
- get worse
- deteriorate
- worse
7. sublimate
verb. direct energy or urges into useful activities.
Synonyms
- airt
- redirect
- desexualise
Antonyms
- loosen
- depersonalize
- dissimilate
- demilitarize
Sentences with sublimate
1. Verb, base form
If it’s impractical to raise the temperature in the room or use a space heater, you’ll have to wait longer for the solids to sublimate and the smell to dissipate.
2. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
As you expand your writing repertoire, you will learn how to write a delayed identification lead, in which you sublimate the “who.”
3. Noun, singular or mass
Water can *sublimate* directly from the frozen form of snow and ice – glaciers and snowpacks – into the gas form of water vapor as well.