- to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- Chemistry.
- to sublime (a solid substance); extract by this process.
- to refine or purify (a substance).
- to make nobler or purer: To read about great men sublimates ambition.
- to become sublimated; undergo sublimation.
- the crystals, deposit, or material obtained when a substance is sublimated.
- purified or exalted; sublimated.
- to direct the energy of (a primitive impulse, esp a sexual one) into activities that are considered to be socially more acceptable
- to make purer; refine
- the material obtained when a substance is sublimed
- exalted or purified
