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sublimate sub·li·mate

Spelling: [verb suhb-luh-meyt; noun, adjective Sublimate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 778 anagrams from letters in sublimate (abeilmstu).

Definitions for sublimate

noun

1. Chemistry. the crystals, deposit, or material obtained when a substance is sublimated.

adjective

1. purified or exalted; sublimated.

verb (used with object)

1. Psychology. to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
2. Chemistry. to sublime (a solid substance); extract by this process. to refine or purify (a substance).
3. to make nobler or purer:

verb (used without object)

1. to become sublimated; undergo sublimation.

Origin of sublimate

1425-75; late Middle English: exalted, sublimated Latin sublīmātus (past participle of sublīmāre to elevate), equivalent to sublīm(is) sublime + -ātus Examples for sublimate

We must sublimate it, grind it down, hammer it out into a useful pattern.

Anton Pavlovitch instantly washed his wound with warm water and sublimate, sprinkled iodoform and put on a bandage.

It readily furnishes a sublimate at 100°, partially decomposing.

Boil them in a glass bottel till the sublimate be dissolved.

This sublimate is yellow while hot, but changes to white when cold.

In this there will always be a little of the sublimate left on the bottom of the jar.

Heated in an ignition tube gives a sublimate of sulphur, the residue becoming magnetic.

Tellurium, or its acid and oxide, may be got as a sublimate in the tube.

Heated in an ignition tube fuses and gives a sublimate of antimonious oxide.

Now that they're out of their force field, they'll start to sublimate.