civilise

Verbs

  • (v) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
    • Cultivate your musical taste
    • Train your tastebuds
    • She is well schooled in poetry
    civilize, school, cultivate, educate, train,
  • (v) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
    • The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized
    civilize,

Synonyms

civilize school cultivate educate train

Words of close approximity

civilian civility civilize
civilised