civilize

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verb

1. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- Cultivate your musical taste
- Train your tastebuds
- She is well schooled in poetry
• Syn:
educate, school, train, cultivate, civilise
• Derivationally related forms:
civilisation (for: civilise), civilization, cultivation (for: cultivate), education (for: educate)
• Hypernyms:
polish, refine, fine-tune, down
• Hyponyms:
sophisticate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
- The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized
• Syn:
civilise
• Derivationally related forms:
civilisation (for: civilise), civilization
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  civilise, educate, school, train, cultivate