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Verb sublimate has 5 senses
- sublimate - direct energy or urges into useful activities
--1 is one way to redirect, airt
Sample sentence:
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- rarefy, sublimate, subtilize - make more subtle or refined
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- purify, sublimate, make pure, distill - remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"
--3 is one way to better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- sublime, sublimate - change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"
--4 is one way to gasify, vaporize, vaporise, aerify
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
- sublime, sublimate - vaporize and then condense right back again
--5 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
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