(in psychoanalytic theory) divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity

I try to sublimate this energy into productivity at work

we often sublimate our own health and needs to care for our spouse

an expression of sublimated anxieties

(of a solid substance) change directly into vapour when heated, typically forming a solid deposit again on cooling

nitrogen sublimates at a lower temperature

a solid deposit of a substance which has sublimated

condensation of a sublimate