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direct energy or urges into useful activities rarefy: make more subtle or refined purify: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water" sublime: change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime when heated" the product of vaporization of a solid purified: made pure sublime: vaporize and then condense right back again
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To raise, elevate or exalt to high place, to dignity, to honor, to transmute directly into something higher, nobler or more refined.
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The expression of an "unacceptable" impulse or urge in a positive or acceptable way. The standard of unacceptable and acceptable usually relate to societal norms.
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