Sublimate in a sentence as a noun

Just make sure to cover the cup so the ice doesn't sublimate away.

Even if it doesn't boil it could sublimate away if not kept extremely cold.

Does CO2 sublimate faster on one site of a security checkpoint?

Freud says man's libido is sublimated in society for the purpose of getting him to do great things.

Most team jobs work best if members are able and willing to sublimate their egos for the good of the group: I was busy being smart and weird.

Sublimate in a sentence as a verb

The water detected is probably bound in various chemical bonds, and is not ice, which indeed would sublimate quickly if exposed.

Since 'free love' undermines the social constructs, such as marriage, that sublimate man's libido, I'm saying essentially the same thing.

Someone thought of orbital space mirrors as an elegant method to do this -- to heat the polar ice caps and sublimate enough to create a runaway greenhouse.

Random crazy idea alert:This is actually close to the temperature to sublimate CO2. I'm curious why we couldn't lower the temperature a little more and pull carbon out of the air?

You can bootstrap instead of appealing for financing, and sublimate your anger at the gatekeepers as motivation.

Sublimate in a sentence as an adjective

With enough frustration, trolls will gravitate towards places where they can sublimate their frustrations more easily and, hopefully, leave HN for those who really want to engage in civil conversation.

Iggy Azalea has hired a crack team of cybermercenaries to take down NK. As communication between different groups calling themselves Anonymous can be quite poor, she hopes to create enough disarray and confusion among the script kiddies to divert and ultimately sublimate the energy and attention currently focused on her.

Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove their need for the power process or to make them sublimate their drive for power into some harmless hobby.

The problem isn't the place human sexuality plays in conversation, but the fact that women in Silicon Valley work in male-dominated environments that have been getting increasingly hostile towards women over the last two decades, and people working in such environments quickly sublimate the power structure.

Sublimate definitions

noun

the product of vaporization of a solid

verb

direct energy or urges into useful activities

verb

make more subtle or refined

See also: rarefy subtilize

verb

remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"

See also: purify distill

verb

change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"

See also: sublime

verb

vaporize and then condense right back again

See also: sublime

adjective

made pure