0 past simple and past participle of sublimate
1 to express strong emotions or use energy by doing an activity, especially an activity that is considered socially acceptable:
I suspect that in the criticism of the people who drive fast there is again a sublimated hate of the man who can afford a fast car.
They have been sublimated into more legal, but no less effective, methods of getting people out of their homes.
It will certainly take a long time before personal aggrandisement is sublimated to service and egalitarianism.
We learn from biology that instincts which are no longer functionally urgent must be sublimated or the body dies.
In these matters do not let us get into a sublimated atmosphere, beyond the reach of commonsense or public expediency.
Saisselin writes in similar terms about the "sublimated" interdependency of market and aesthetic value.
Vicinus further argues that such sublimated desire through self-denial of physical intimacy was all the sweeter because it tied into the model of moral self-restraint.
The viewer's yearning for intimacy with the past and his acquisitive desire are both sublimated in an aesthetic contemplation devoid of either physical contact or possessiveness.
