Civilize: Definition and part of speech

Civilize

  1. v. t. To admit as suitable to a civilized state.
  2. v. t. To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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