English Dictionary

sublimate

/ˈsʌblɪmeɪt/

verb

(transitive, intransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state. / (transitive, archaic) To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.

She was able to sublimate her anger into productive energy.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state.

意味（2）

(transitive, archaic) To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.

意味（3）

(transitive, psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity.

Foreigners extol the American energy […] Basically it is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness.

意味（4）

(archaic) To raise to a place of honor; to refine and exalt.

The precepts of Christianity are […] so apt […] to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.