sublimate
verb (used with object)
to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
has sublimated
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present perfectof sublimate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Shaffer has sublimated liberal grief, nostalgia, and fantasy into a sort of allegorical potboiler.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2018
As for Jeff, he has sublimated everything into his movies, "learned the wisdom of perversity and made his lonely secret into art."
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2015
Have we taken to good heart the divine record of love, of faith, which an æsthetic age has sublimated into credos, and left actions as a caput mortuum?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
