sublimate

1. (verb) direct energy or urges into useful activities
Related Words: airt, desexualize, redirect

2. (noun) the product of vaporization of a solid
Related Words: bichloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, gas, mercuric chloride, mercury chloride

3. (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again
Synonyms: sublime
Related Words: change, resublime

4. (verb) remove impurities from; "purify the water"
Synonyms: distill, make pure, purify
Related Words: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, purge, refine

5. (verb) make more subtle or refined
Synonyms: rarefy, subtilize
Related Words: alter, change

6. (satellite adjective) made pure
Synonyms: purified, refined



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