The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sublimate \Sub"li*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sublimated; p. pr. & vb. n. Sublimating.] [L. sublimatus, p. p. of sublimare to raise, elevate, fr. sublimis high: cf. F. sublimer. See Sublime, a., and cf. Surlime, v. t.]
To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.
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To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.
--Dr. H. More. (Psychology) To redirect the energy (of sexual or other biological drives) into a more socially acceptable or constructive form.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of sublimate English)
Usage examples of "sublimating".
They were sublimating bits of their cooling vanes for the last thirty light-years.
He had succeeding in sublimating his hatred of the assassin, heeding Catti-brie's words and remembering the priorities of the adventure.
Never until this huge beautiful plume that came exploding out of the canyon wall two hundred meters below her pounding heart, eclipsing the carbon-dioxide mist in a thick fog of sublimating water.
But the sight of Giselle in her nightdress—her light brown hair and slim figure, her exquisite face with its high cheekbones and pouting lips, all so reminiscent of the Golden—renewed his hunger, and though he had fed only days before, without a word of greeting, he pushed her down upon the black silk coverlet of the canopied bed, brushed back the fall of hair from the vein in her neck, and drank deeply, drank in fury and frustration, sublimating his need for revenge, imagining that it was the Lady Dolores’s blood upon which he was supping.
What Xenia couldn’t work out was whether Frank was a visionary who used capitalism to achieve his goals—or just a capitalist after all, sublimating his greed and ambition.
I would have permitted ethnic and social identities to remain distinct while sublimating nationalism within pride for the empire.