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: civilized, civilizes, civilizing

See also: civilization

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

Encyclopedia: Civilize

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