SUBLIMATING Synonyms

• investing with dignity or honor

• tending to exalt

• serving to purge or rid of sin

• an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements

• the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge

• serving to purge or rid of sin

• freeing from noxious matter

• acting like an antiseptic

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• raise from a lower to a higher position

• raise in rank or condition

• praise, glorify, or honor

• bestow glory upon

• elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

• cause to seem more splendid

• consider or render as ideal

• form ideals

• being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• precisely accurate or exact

• make perfect or complete

• give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense

• elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

• purify from the corrupting influences of the world

• subject to a mathematical transformation

• change or alter in form, appearance, or nature

• change in outward structure or looks

• change from one form or medium into another

• convert (one form of energy) to another

• change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species

• increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)

• change in outward structure or looks

• change or alter in form, appearance, or nature

• alter the nature of (elements)

• inspiring awe

• worthy of adoration or reverence

• lifted up or set high

• of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style

• greatest or maximal in degree; extreme

• vaporize and then condense right back again

• change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• raise from a lower to a higher position

• raise in rank or condition

• become more extreme

• make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity

• increase the level of

• increase the height of

• make (one's senses) more acute

• make more intense, stronger, or more marked

• remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation

• undergo the process of distillation

• extract by the process of distillation

• undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops

• give off (a liquid)

• remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation

• make pure or free from sin or guilt

• become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin

• lessen the density or solidity of

• make more subtle or refined

• weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)

• mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words

• make more subtle or refined

• make (senses) more keen

• remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation