Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sublimate
Participle: sublimated
Gerund: sublimating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sublimate |
| you | sublimate |
| he;she;it | sublimates |
| we | sublimate |
| you | sublimate |
| they | sublimate |
Perfect
| I | have sublimated |
| you | have sublimated |
| he;she;it | has sublimated |
| we | have sublimated |
| you | have sublimated |
| they | have sublimated |
Past
| I | sublimated |
| you | sublimated |
| he;she;it | sublimated |
| we | sublimated |
| you | sublimated |
| they | sublimated |
Pluperfect
| I | had sublimated |
| you | had sublimated |
| he;she;it | had sublimated |
| we | had sublimated |
| you | had sublimated |
| they | had sublimated |
Future
| I | will sublimate |
| you | will sublimate |
| he;she;it | will sublimate |
| we | will sublimate |
| you | will sublimate |
| they | will sublimate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sublimated |
| you | will have sublimated |
| he;she;it | will have sublimated |
| we | will have sublimated |
| you | will have sublimated |
| they | will have sublimated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sublimate |
| you | sublimate |
| he;she;it | sublimate |
| we | sublimate |
| you | sublimate |
| they | sublimate |
Perfect
| I | have sublimated |
| you | have sublimated |
| he;she;it | have sublimated |
| we | have sublimated |
| you | have sublimated |
| they | have sublimated |
Imperfect
| I | sublimated |
| you | sublimated |
| he;she;it | sublimated |
| we | sublimated |
| you | sublimated |
| they | sublimated |
Pluperfect
| I | had sublimated |
| you | had sublimated |
| he;she;it | had sublimated |
| we | had sublimated |
| you | had sublimated |
| they | had sublimated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sublimate |
| you | would sublimate |
| he;she;it | would sublimate |
| we | would sublimate |
| you | would sublimate |
| they | would sublimate |
Perfect
| I | would have sublimated |
| you | would have sublimated |
| he;she;it | would have sublimated |
| we | would have sublimated |
| you | would have sublimated |
| they | would have sublimated |
Imperative
| you | sublimate |
| we | Let's sublimate |
| you | sublimate |
Verbs conjugated like 'sublimate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sublimate'
desublimate,
publicate,
sublate,
sublevate,
sublime,
sublimise,
sublimize,
subluxate,
abligate,
acclimate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English sublymate, from Latin sublīmātus, past participle of sublīmāre (“to raise, elevate”).
Sample Sentences
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Foreigners extol the American "energy" […] Basically it is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness. [1969, Susan Sontag, “What’s Happening in America”, in Styles of Radical Will, Kindle edition, Penguin Modern Classics, published 2009, →ISBN, page 194:]
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When he got home from the parade, however, Professor Solanka was seized by melancholy, his usual secret sadness, which he sublimated into the public sphere. Something was amiss with the world. The optimistic peace-and-love philosophy of his youth having given him up, he no longer knew how to reconcile himself to an increasingly phoney […] reality. [2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 7:]
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The precepts of Christianity are […] so apt […] to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt. [1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:]