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View definitions for sublimate

sublimate

verb as in purify

verb as in divert

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“And I think that there’s a way in which we can kind of sublimate our own stuff by feeling like, ‘If I can just get to the bottom of why that guy or that person did that thing, maybe I could uncover some universal human truth and I could make sure that I never found myself in a situation like that again.’”

We have to sublimate a lot of emotions into our sports teams because we’re repressed.

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

"We are basically saying that Arrokoth is so super cold that for more ice to sublimate -- or go directly from solid to a gas, skipping the liquid phase within it -- that the gas it sublimates into first has to have travel outwards through its porous, sponge-like interior," Birch said.

"The trick is that to move the gas, you also have to sublimate the ice, so what you get is a domino effect: it gets colder within Arrokoth, less ice sublimates, less gas moves, it gets even colder, and so on. Eventually, everything just effectively shuts off, and you're left with an object full of gas that is just slowly trickling out."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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