Overview of verb sublimate

The verb sublimate has 5 senses

• sublimate -- (direct energy or urges into useful activities)


• rarefy, sublimate, subtilize -- (make more subtle or refined)


• purify, sublimate, make pure, distill -- (remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water")


• sublime, sublimate -- (change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated")


• sublime, sublimate -- (vaporize and then condense right back again)

Overview of adj sublimated

The adj sublimated has 1 sense

• sublimed, sublimated -- (passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid)