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Pronunciation: /sʌbˈrɪ.seɪt/
Definition:
1. To emit a subtle or partial smile.
2. Producing a minor upward curl of the mouth (boca) corners.
3. Expressing a controlled or restrained smile.
4. Displaying a courteous but not fully expressed smile.

Significance:
• It defines subtle or partially expressed smiles.
• It emphasizes restraint or politeness in facial expressions.
• It identifies nuanced emotional displays.
• It avoids Scandinavian-Germanic origins.
• It simplifies descriptions of mild or polite smiles.
• It improves clarity in interpersonal communication.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms, similar to "smile."
Parts of Speech:
Past verb: subrisated
Present simple verb: subrisate, subrisates
Present continuous verb: subrisating
Singular noun: subrisure
Plural noun: subrisures
Examples:
• "She subrisated vaguely at the compliment."
• "His subrisate indicated quiet amusement."
• "During encounters, he often subrisates politely."
• "Photographers capture authentic subrisated faces in portraits."
• "Actors practice subrisating to convey subtle emotions."
subrisate by Dmitrio October 15, 2025
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Subsistentialism 

The philosophical approach emphasizing the ontological relationship between an existentialist and his personal-use crops.
"Johnny won't share any of his bell peppers; he's into subsistentialism."

Sublimate 

PSYCHOLOGY mature type of defense mechanism, in which socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are unconsciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior, possibly resulting in a long-term conversion of the initial impulse.

SEXUAL The process of not having sex in order to channel your libido and inner chi into your craft.
In order to sublimate our being a crackhead, we must first stop using crack, get new information about how to have fun without crack, and then start having fun without the crack. This is a process called sublimation.

I cant have sex tonight because I need my strength for the big game tomorrow.
Sublimate by Mikkster78 January 7, 2018

subsistence farting 

When someone farts just enough for only the farter to smell it, and no one else.

Similar to subsistence farming, but related to passing gas and not raising crops.
Person A: *frrt*

Person B: Did you just fart? Why don't I smell it?

Person A: I guess only I can smell it.

Person B: Thank you for subsistence farting!
subsistence farting by tinkarink December 12, 2021

subsistence 

1. Surviving on the bare minimum of what you need to live.

2. An active RuneScape clan with well over a hundred members and 35+ level 100's.
I'm barely subsisting on these supplies we have here...

Hey look, it's Clan Subsistence! They're going to destroy us in a clan war!
subsistence by ygfbv April 22, 2011

Sublimate 

1. Tech.: The process by which a substance undergoes a phase change from solid directly to gas w/o first becoming liquid.
2. Urban: To smoke pot and then go spread subliminal messages around town. A fond pastime of The Loyal Supplanter Who is Fleet of Foot.
Hey babe, you wanna go out tonight and... Sublimate?
Sublimate by LoyalSupplanter933 August 1, 2012

subsistence farming 

Agriculture that provides food to the farmer and his/her family, with little or no product for trade. The practitioners are very susceptible to famine.
The Ethiopian practice of subsistence farming, is almost suicidal.
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