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: December 11, 2024
\SUB-luh-mayt\ verb
What It Means
To sublimate something—such as an impulse, desire, or feeling—is to express it in a changed form that is socially acceptable. Sublimate can also mean "to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state."
// Nora later came to understand that she had used painting to sublimate her anger.
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