verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Players have to sublimate their egos for the good of the team.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I must learn to sublimate my desire for my own perch by feeling happy for Aunt Louise sitting there.
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In this respect his predatory instincts were sublimated for the welfare of family and community.
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It was the 1950s, and we were poor and chaste, and we sublimated furiously.
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Nurses are no longer expected to sublimate their feelings behind starchy officiousness as has been the case in the not so distant past.
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Once again, I felt that if I did not somehow sublimate my pain, I should be irretrievably lost.
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One method whereby the aggressive and destructive energies of mankind are sublimated is through work.
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Writers like Yamamoto and Yamauchi and even Mori do not so fully sublimate their losses.