Defenition of the word sublimate
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Defenition of the word sublimate
- To change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state.
- To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner.
- made pure
- remove impurities from; "purify the water"
- make more subtle or refined
- the product of vaporization of a solid
- direct energy or urges into useful activities
- vaporize and then condense right back again
- change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"
- change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
Synonyms for the word sublimate
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- distill
- make pure
- purified
- purify
- rarefy
- refined
- sublime
- subtilize
Similar words in the sublimate
Hyponyms for the word sublimate
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- bichloride of mercury
- corrosive sublimate
- desexualise
- desexualize
- mercuric chloride
- mercury chloride
- purge
- rectify
- refine
- resublime
Hypernyms for the word sublimate
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- aerify
- airt
- alter
- ameliorate
- amend
- better
- change
- gas
- gasify
- improve
- meliorate
- modify
- redirect
- vaporise
- vaporize
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