sublimate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English sublymate, from Latin sublīmātus, past participle of sublīmāre (“to raise, elevate”).
Inflected forms:
form: sublimates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sublimating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sublimated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sublimated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sublimates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To heat (a substance) in a container so as to convert it into a gas which then condenses in solid form on cooler parts of the container.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To heat (a substance) in a container so as to convert it into a gas which then condenses in solid form on cooler parts of the container.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To refine (something) until it disappears or loses all meaning.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To obtain (something) through, or as if through, sublimation.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
broadly
figuratively
transitive
gloss: To purify or refine (a substance).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: The precepts of Christianity are […] so apt […] to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.
gloss: Synonym of sublime.
pos: verb
tags: also
broadly
figuratively
transitive
gloss: Synonym of sublime.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
gloss: Of a substance: to change from a solid into a gas without passing through the liquid state, with or without being heated.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of a substance: to change from a gas into a solid without passing through the liquid state.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
gloss: Synonym of sublime (“to become higher in quality or status; to improve”).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
gloss: A product obtained by sublimation.
pos: noun
Antonyms: deposit
desublimate
Related words: corrosive sublimate
Derived words: resublime
resublimination
sublimability
sublimable
sublimatable
sublimated
sublimating
sublimation
sublimational
sublimator
sublime
sublimed
sublimer
subliming
unsublimated
unsublimed
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: sublimovat
lang: Finnish
word: sublimoida
lang: Finnish
word: ylevöittää
lang: French
word: sublimer
lang: German
word: sublimieren
lang: Japanese
word: 昇華させる
roman: shōka saseru
lang: Portuguese
word: sublimar
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сублимирати
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sublimirati
lang: Spanish
word: sublimar
lang: Swedish
word: sublimera