Another word for civilize
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Verb
To fit for companionship with others, especially in attitude or manners
- To place under government or group ownership or control:
- To cause to accept or behave in accordance with social norms or expectations:
- To take part in social activities:
- To portray or endow with human characteristics or attributes; make human:
- To imbue with humaneness or human kindness; civilize:
- To synthesize (a monoclonal antibody) using cells of an organism, usually a mouse, in which a sequence of non-human DNA has been replaced by a sequence of human DNA so that the resulting antibody is more compatible with the human immune system.
- To cause (a society, for example) to change by the process of acculturation.
- To change or be modified by acculturation.
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Another word for civilize
Verb
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- To make noble:
- To confer nobility upon:
- To cause to move forward:
- To put forward; propose or suggest:
- To aid the growth or progress of:
- To impart knowledge or skill to:
- To provide knowledge of; instruct in:
- To condition to a certain action or frame of mind:
- To develop the mental, moral, or social capabilities of, especially by schooling or instruction.
- To provide with knowledge or training in a particular area or for a particular purpose:
- To provide with information, as in an effort to gain support for a position or to influence behavior:
- To move (something) to a higher place or position from a lower one; lift.
- To increase the amount or intensity of:
- To promote to a higher rank.
- To instruct in a body of doctrine or principles.
- To imbue with a partisan or ideological point of view:
- To raise to a more important or responsible job or rank.
- To advance (a student) to the next higher grade.
- To contribute to the progress or growth of; further.
- To give orders to; direct:
- To provide with knowledge; to train or inform:
- To serve as an instructor.
- To bring up; nurture:
- To promote the growth and development of; cultivate:
- To nurse; cherish:
- Brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state.
- Naturally unafraid; not timid:
- Submissive; docile; fawning:
- To raise; elevate.
- To raise to a higher social, intellectual, or moral level or condition.
- To raise to spiritual or emotional heights; exalt:
- To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement.
- To place under government or group ownership or control:
- To cause to accept or behave in accordance with social norms or expectations:
- To take part in social activities:
- To portray or endow with human characteristics or attributes; make human:
- To imbue with humaneness or human kindness; civilize:
- To synthesize (a monoclonal antibody) using cells of an organism, usually a mouse, in which a sequence of non-human DNA has been replaced by a sequence of human DNA so that the resulting antibody is more compatible with the human immune system.
- To impart a spiritual nature to.
- To invest with or treat as having a spiritual sense or meaning.
- To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly:
- To make more complex or refined:
- To mislead or corrupt (a person).
- To make smooth and shiny by rubbing or chemical action.
- To remove the outer layers from (grains of rice) by rotation in drums.
- To refine or remove flaws from; perfect or complete:
- To cause (a society, for example) to change by the process of acculturation.
- To change or be modified by acculturation.
- To reduce to a pure state; purify.
- To remove by purifying.
- To free from coarse, unsuitable, or immoral characteristics:
- To demand the restoration or return of (a possession, for example); claim again or back:
- To require or deserve again:
- To bring into or return to a suitable condition for use, as cultivation or habitation:
- To make rich or richer.
- To make fuller, more meaningful, or more rewarding:
- To add fertilizer to.
- To improve and prepare (land), as by plowing or fertilizing, for raising crops; till.
- To loosen or dig soil around (growing plants).
- To grow or tend (a plant or crop).
- To give spiritual or intellectual insight to:
- To give information to; inform or instruct.
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