Definition of "sublimes" []

• Plural form of sublime. (noun)

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• "When strongly heated it sublimes, that is, it passes into a vapor without melting, and condenses again to a crystalline solid when the vapor is cooled."
• "Materialization of both wish and phantasy is monstrous to Victor, because his egoic coherence depends on denying the death-drive that he sublimes as life — especially the life of science, invention, and creativity."
• "Ice on Kilimanjaro, for example, sublimes rather than melts."