sublimate

It almost feels like some kind of test, where you are forced to sublimate your wishes and, perhaps, your self respect.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 5, 2026

“You’ve got to sublimate yourself, your ego, and yes, your identity. You must stand in front of the public and God and obliterate yourself.”

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025

She pulled him up, brushed him off and transitioned him into a life where he would sublimate his addictive impulses into steady work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

Halloween may be over, but if you ask me carving a gourd still seems like a good way to sublimate creeping dread.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2022

Kyanise, kī′an-īz, v.t. to preserve from dry-rot by injecting corrosive sublimate into the pores of the wood.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

As temperatures rise in early summer, the ice sublimates, changing directly into vapor and potentially opening pathways for underground gases to reach the atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

He sublimates by focusing on new fabrication methods and by researching casting and molding techniques.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

"Because Martian air is so thin and the temperatures so cold, water-ice snow sublimates, or becomes a gas, before it even touches the ground. Dry-ice snow actually does reach the ground," NASA's website states.

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

The tiny blood siphons are attracted by the carbon dioxide that sublimates off the dry ice, like breath exhaled from a potential host.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2017

When the substance is under examination, we should devote our attention to the nature of the sublimates, and to that of the odors of the gases.

From A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations by Anonymous

Mr. Jones suggests that James sublimated doubts and forbidden desires into his stories and the routines of Cambridge and Eton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Britpop conveyed Britishness through wryness; grunge articulated Americana through sublimated passion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025

The 12-foot-long cabinetlike work is the latest in the series that Peters calls “impossible monuments”: installations made out of disparate, significant materials that explore overlooked or sublimated matters of import.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

Materials are sublimated in a vacuum under heat supply, i.e. they are converted from a solid to a gaseous state and condense on the substrate surface.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

Our next workshop, no one understood what my sublimated love sonnet was all about, but Rudy's brought down the house.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

In earlier work, she showed that sublimating CO2 ice can trigger debris flows that cut deep channels along crater walls.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

Yet they have enough in common that one might think they could be friends: Each is frustrated with life, work, their domestic arrangements, their parents; depressed; and sublimating their anger except as regards the other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2023

I suggested that perhaps in an age of digital streaming, streetwear had replaced record collecting, sublimating whatever obsessive, completist, seemingly male-specific tendencies that were once reserved for rare Nirvana EPs and Kanye’s earliest mixtapes.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2018

Not only do they prevent solid ice from sublimating into vapor, they also shield planets from harmful radiation and help regulate surface temperatures within a stable range.

From Scientific American ● May 30, 2017

Actually, by now it's full of slowly sublimating ice.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir