Dictionary Entry
sublimate
sublimate is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.
- 2transitive verb
To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
- 3noun
A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained.
- 4adjective
Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.
- 5noun
the product of vaporization of a solid
- 6verb
vaporize and then condense right back again
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- 7verb
change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting
"sublime iodine"
"some salts sublime when heated"
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- 8verb
remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
"purify the water"
- 9verb
make more subtle or refined
- 10verb
direct energy or urges into useful activities
- 11adjective
made pure
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