Sublimate

/ˈsʌblɪmeɪt/

Synonyms for "sublimate" (116 found)

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Closest matches (24)

aerate aerify alluvion alluvium alter ash atomize bolt carbonate channel chlorinate cinder clarify clear clinker decrassify deposition deposits depurate diluvium

Noun(3 words)

condensate crystal deposit

Verb(1 words)

distil

Strong matches (34)

distill divert draff dregs dross edulcorate elute ember emit essentialize etherify etherize evaporate exhale extract feces filter filtrate fluidize fractionate

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froth fume fumigate gasifygive offgrounds hydrogenate inhibitkeep underleach lees

Verb(1 words)

distill

Noun(2 words)

elevate evaporate

Related words (58)

lixiviate loess moraine offscum oxygenate percolate perfume precipitate precipitation purify rectify reek refine repress scoria screen scum sedimentsend outseparate

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settlings sieve sift silt sinter slag smoke smother smut soot spiritualize spray steam stifle strain sublime suppress transform transmute try vaporize volatilize winnow

Verb(7 words)

make purepurify rarefy sublime sublimed subtilize vaporizes

Noun(8 words)

purify redirect refine sublimer subliming transmute vaporize vaporizing

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

21 entries

aerify airt alter ameliorate amend better change gas gasify improve material meliorate modifymoral conceptphase changepsychological process

Showing 16 of 21 words.

More specific

7 entries

creative sublimationcrystaldry ice sublimationiodine sublimationmoral sublimationnoble sublimationpowder

Collocations

11 entries

condensed sublimatescrystalline sublimatespurified sublimatessublimate aggressionsublimate desiressublimate energysublimate frustrationsublimate impulsessublimate into artsublimate samplesublimation product

Inflections

3 entries

sublimated sublimates sublimating

Derivations

5 entries

sublimable sublimation sublimative sublimator sublimatory

similar

3 entries

distil distill pure

Translations

11 translations across 9 languages.

Czech

1 entries

sublimovat verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)

Finnish

2 entries

sublimoida verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)
ylevöittää verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)

French

1 entries

sublimer verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)

German

1 entries

sublimieren verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)

Japanese

1 entries

昇華させる verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)

Portuguese

1 entries

sublimar verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

sublimirati verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)
сублимирати verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)

Spanish

1 entries

sublimar verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)

Swedish

1 entries

sublimera verb (to modify (the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct) in a socially acceptable manner)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Foreigners extol the American "energy" […] Basically it is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness.

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When he got home from the parade, however, Professor Solanka was seized by melancholy, his usual secret sadness, which he sublimated into the public sphere. Something was amiss with the world. The optimistic peace-and-love philosophy of his youth having given him up, he no longer knew how to reconcile himself to an increasingly phoney […] reality.

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The precepts of Christianity are […] so apt […] to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.

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