verb
- Direct energy or urges into useful activities.
- synonyms: sublimate
- Make more subtle or refined.
- Remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation.
- usage: "purify the water"
- Change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting.
- usage: "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated"
- Vaporize and then condense right back again.
adjective
- Passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid.
- synonyms: sublimed
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