| Definition of 'civilise' |
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1. (verb) educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
"Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
2. (verb) civilize, civilise
raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
"The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"
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Sense: to change the ways of (a primitive people) to those found in a more advanced type of society
The Romans tried to civilize the ancient Britons.
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 Afrikaans: beskaaf |
 Arabic: يُمدِّن، يُحضِّـر |
 Bulgarian: цивилизовам |
 Brazilian: civilizar |
 Czech: (z)civilizovat |
 German: zivilisieren |
 Danish: opdrage; civilisere |
 Greek: εκπολιτίζω |
 Spanish: civilizar |
 Estonian: tsiviliseerima |
 Farsi: متمدن کردن |
 Finnish: sivistää |
 French: civiliser |
 Hebrew: לְתַרבֵּת |
 Hindi: सभ्य बनाना |
 Croatian: prosvijetiti, obrazovati, |
 Hungarian: civilizál |
 Indonesian: membudayakan, memajukan |
 Icelandic: siða, mennta, siðmennta |
 Italian: civilizzare |
 Japanese: 文明化する |
 Korean: 문명화 되다 |
 Lithuanian: civilizuoti, kultūrinti |
 Latvian: civilizēt |
 Malay: memperadabkan |
 Dutch: beschaven |
 Norwegian: sivilisere, gjøre dannet/ |
 Polish: cywilizować |
 Persian: متمدن کردن |
 Pashto: باستانی |
 Portuguese: civilizar |
 Romanian: a civiliza |
 Russian: цивилизовать |
 Slovak: civilizovať |
 Slovenian: civilizirati |
 Serbian: civilizovati |
 Swedish: civilisera |
 Thai: ทำให้มีความศิวิไลซ์ |
 Turkish: uygarlaştırmak, medenileş |
 Taiwanese: 使開化 |
 Ukrainian: цивілізувати |
 Urdu: مہذب ہونا |
 Vietnamese: khai hóa |
 Chinese: 使开化，使文明 |
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