sublimate
Example Sentences
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But the sibling competition, however sublimated, was real.
This refusenik sensibility is threaded through the entire series, and any attempt by the characters to sublimate themselves to social norms fizzled quickly and often in grand fashion.
From New York Times
Feelings are sublimated, details are discussed only in euphemism.
From Washington Post
The increasing intensity of politics might be related to secularization — spiritual restlessness and yearning for community sublimated into politics.
From Washington Post
Yet they have enough in common that one might think they could be friends: Each is frustrated with life, work, their domestic arrangements, their parents; depressed; and sublimating their anger except as regards the other.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
