What is the meaning of civilize?

Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.
- usage: "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
- synonyms: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilise
Raise from a barbaric to a civilized state.
- usage: "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"
- synonyms: civilise

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