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Verb: civilize  'sivu`lI
  1. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
    - educate, school, train, cultivate, civilise [Brit]
     
  2. Raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
    "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"
    - civilise [Brit]

Derived forms: civilizing, civilized, civilizes

See also: civilization

Type of: alter, change, down, fine-tune, modify, polish, refine

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