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Civilize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    American and Oxford British standard spelling of civilise.
  2. 2
    raise from a barbaric to a civilized state wordnet
  3. 3
    teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French civiliser, corresponding to civil + -ize.

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