sublimated
- v direct energy or urges into useful activities
- v make more subtle or refined
- v remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
- v change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
- v vaporize and then condense right back again
- a passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid
- The furor sublimated Mondale's long-awaited unveiling of his plan to slash the huge federal deficit by two-thirds within four years (see following story).
- At a time when Hollywood could still only hint at promiscuity, these movies sublimated their animal urges in the classic farce techniques of innuendo and mistaken identity.
- In the range of five babies and beyond, we enter a realm of fascinated horror, sublimated into sentimentality.