| 单词 | sublimate |
| 释义 | sublimate (once / 4571 pages) vnadj When you're at a lecture and you feel restless, you've got to sublimate the desire to move around. That means you force the desire to be more subtle so you can continue listening — even if you don't want to. Psychologists use the verb sublimate to describe the process of channeling intense energy into something useful or appropriate. Freud sublimated his desire to live at home with his mother, and he moved into his own apartment. Sublimate is related to the word sublime — both words come from the Latin word sublimare, which means "to raise up" or "to exalt." So Freud's finally getting his own place is, arguably, a superior — a more exalted — living situation. WORD FAMILYsublimate: sublimated, sublimates, sublimating, sublimation+/sublimation: sublimations/sublime: sublimate, sublimed, sublimely, sublimer, sublimes, sublimest, subliming, sublimity/sublimity: sublimities USAGE EXAMPLESWhile Millar admits that his fiction is replete with troubled adolescents, he contends that any personal or autobiographical material has been sublimated, shaped and refracted. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) For his part, Chabon appears aware of this tendency to sublimate pain into fantasy. Slate(Nov 30, 2016) But at that age you sublimate — you just don’t let it take control. New York Times(Oct 27, 2016) 1v change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting Syn|Hyper sublime aerify, gasify, vaporise, vaporize turn into gas 2v make more subtle or refined Syn|Hyper rarefy, subtilize alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 3v direct energy or urges into useful activities Hypo|Hyper desexualise, desexualize direct one's libidinous urges into another direction airt, redirect channel into a new direction 4v remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation Syn|Hypo|Hyper distill, make pure, purify distil, distill undergo the process of distillation rectify, refine reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities purgerid of impurities ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better 5v vaporize and then condense right back again Syn|Hypo|Hyper sublime resublime sublime (a compound) once again change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 6n the product of vaporization of a solid Hypo|Hyper bichloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, mercuric chloride, mercury chloride a white poisonous soluble crystalline sublimate of mercury; used as a pesticide or antiseptic or wood preservative gas a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely 7adj made pure Syn pure free of extraneous elements of any kind |
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