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Verb civilize has 2 senses
- educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise - train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
--1 is one way to polish, refine, fine-tune, down
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- civilize, civilise - raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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