civilize
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
Cultivate your musical taste
Types & categories
- fine-tune hypernym
- sophisticate hyponym
Related & opposite
- civilization derivation
- breeding derivation
- refinement derivation
Sense 2 verb
raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- civilization derivation
- civilisation derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | civilization |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | breeding |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | refinement |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | fine-tune |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sophisticate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | civilization |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | civilisation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |