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sublimate

verb as in purify

verb as in divert

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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.

This could be the anthem animating the subconscious of Black Twitter, one of sublimated and disaffected affections .

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.

Ellis-Taylor’s face becomes an epic poem of expertly sublimated frustration and ire.

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

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