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US
/ˈsɪvəˌɫaɪz/
]
VERB
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raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized -
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
Train your tastebuds
She is well schooled in poetry
Cultivate your musical taste
How To Use civilize In A Sentence
- A belief in it is not only not naïve; it is the essential precondition for civilized society, and our best defense against the arbitrary use of power.
- He dresses in half-mourning always, and never wears any jewelry, but strictly shuns all society, and prefers uncivilized regions. Erema
- In an earlier time, we would have said that such people were primitives, uncivilized.
- The dichotomy between “forwardness” and “backwardness” is a scale constructed and enforced by the civilizer to validate his civilizing/colonial project. Hartzell and Lin lose on appeal
- rising crime in our so-called civilized societies.
- Various authors have indicated that the dehumanization of others by means of ascribing animal attributes to them is a way to legitimize their exploitation and their exclusion from civilized society.
- The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
- They were civilized people who knew when society gets stale. Times, Sunday Times
- They are backward, uncultured, uncivilized, and completely alien to the good norms values and achievements of the present era.
- Tobacco's use in heathenish and healing rituals eventually would be replaced by its use in civilized medicine.
