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(verb) direct energy or urges into useful activities |
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Related Words: airt, desexualize, redirect |
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(noun) the product of vaporization of a solid |
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Related Words: bichloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, gas, mercuric chloride, mercury chloride |
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(verb) vaporize and then condense right back again |
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Synonyms: sublime |
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Related Words: change, resublime |
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(verb) remove impurities from; "purify the water" |
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Synonyms: distill, make pure, purify |
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Related Words: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, purge, refine |
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5. |
(verb) make more subtle or refined |
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Synonyms: rarefy, subtilize |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(satellite adjective) made pure |
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Synonyms: purified, refined |
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