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to sublimate
01
to vaporize and then immediately condense again into a solid form
Grammatical Information
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
sublimate
3rd person singular
sublimates
Past simple
sublimated
Past participle
sublimated
Examples
The iodine crystals sublimated and reformed on the cooler surface.
02
to make something more refined or elevated
Examples
The artist sublimated raw emotion into elegant form.
03
to cause a solid to change directly into a gas without passing through the liquid phase
Examples
Heat will sublimate the dry ice directly into a gas.
Sublimate
01
the product of vaporization of a solid
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Plural form
sublimates
sublimate
01
made pure
Grammatical Information
Composition
past participle adjective
qualitative
ungradable
Lexical Tree
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sublimation
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