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sublimate

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1. sublimate - Noun

2. sublimate - Adjective

3. sublimate - Verb

4. sublimate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.

A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained.

Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. Salvador Dalí

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music. Peter Steele

Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone. Roxane Gay

We live in an age where people are constantly trying to find remedies for pain, instead of learning how to sublimate it into divine music, the way Begum Akhtar did. For, the mercurial diva from Lucknow sang the poetry of Ghalib and many others in a manner that would make even pain seem desirable. Begum Akhtar

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. Jonah Goldberg

I have always tried to sublimate the body and to make people dream. Thierry Mugler

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