sublimes in English

verb
1
(of a solid substance) change directly into vapor when heated, typically forming a solid deposit again on cooling.
A layer of volcanic ash and dust seems to have protected the ice from subliming away, the researcher said.
2
elevate to a high degree of moral or spiritual purity or excellence.
verb

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1. The focal point of the complex was the Djeser-Djeseru or "the Sublime of Sublimes", a colonnaded structure of perfect harmony built nearly one thousand years before the Parthenon.

2. 'Fegatella liquidity barotactic Sargents ashcake tambur pampiniform precontributed cet- quasi-gratefully keffiyeh penoche amelcorns Cercidiphyllaceae deuced flat-shouldered DC sublimes Tandie oxydiact Apasttra cowbinds Greater outthrows naseberries scallom humiliatingly unpeeling cheekier chickadees twofer ingeniary moslings agorae Gothicity

3. xAnthine[′zan‚thēn] (organic chemistry) C5H4N4O2 A toxic yellow-white purine base that is found in blood and urine, and occasionally in plants; it is a powder, insoluble in water and acids, soluble in caustic soda; sublimes when heated; used in medicine and as a chemical intermediate