Sublimate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUBLIMATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form
• (in psychoanalytic theory) divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity
• transform (something) into a purer or idealized form
• 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.
• direct energy or urges into useful activities
• make more subtle or refined
• remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
• change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
• vaporize and then condense right back again
• direct the energy of (a strong desire) into socially acceptable activities
NOUN:
• a solid deposit of a substance which has sublimed
• A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained.
• the product of vaporization of a solid
• material obtained when a substance is sublimed
ADJECTIVE:
• Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.
• made pure
• exalted or purified
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• sublime 1b archaic; to improve or refine as if by subliming
• direct the energy of (a strong desire, esp a sexual one) into socially acceptable activities

Words related to SUBLIMATE

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Words that contain SUBLIMATE

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How to use SUBLIMATE in a sentence

• The bandages and sublimate pads are then removed, and the skin of the coronet over the seat of operation shaved of hair.
• Or if the sublimate be dissipated by the flame of oxidation, it gives a green color.
• The sublimate may be driven about the charcoal from place to place, by either flame, but is finally dissipated.
• This sublimate is yellow while hot, but changes to white when cold.
• This metal easily takes fire when heated in the air, and burns with a brownish-yellow vapor, while it deposits a yellow sublimate upon surrounding bodies.
• This sublimate is more visible when cold, and is produced some time previous to the reduction of the zinc oxide.
• Upon charcoal, in the flame of reduction, the bead is slowly and only partially reduced, a scanty sublimate being produced on the charcoal.
• This sublimate disappears when touched by the flame of reduction, while it communicates an azure blue-tinge to the external flame.
• In the reduction flame, and upon charcoal, melting tin retains its metallic lustre, while a thin sublimate is produced upon the charcoal.
• In a strong and continued reduction flame, it may be reduced to metal, when the same sublimate above mentioned is visible.

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