sublimate
- Verb. (physics) To change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state (''transitive'' or ''intransitive'').
- Verb. To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.
- Verb. (transitive, psychoanalysis) 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.
- Verb. (archaic) To raise to a place of honor.
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