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What is another word for civilizes?

Pronunciation: [sˈɪvə͡lˌa͡ɪzɪz] (IPA)

"Civilizes" refers to the process of making something or someone more sophisticated, educated, or refined. Synonyms for "civilizes" include "cultivates," "educates," "enlightens," "develops," "polishes," "improves," "refines," "sophisticates," and "humanizes." Each of these terms has a slightly different connotation but they are all related to the act of refining or improving something or someone. For example, "cultivate" implies a process of nurturing, while "refine" suggests that something is being made more elegant or polished. These synonyms can be used interchangeably depending on the context and intended meaning of the sentence.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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Science boasts much, but accomplishes little; is vainglorious, puffed up, and uncharitable; desires to be considered as the root of all civilization and the seed of all good, whereas it is the heart that civilizes, never the head.
"Paul Patoff"
F. Marion Crawford
And civilizes the other chaps.
"Misalliance"
George Bernard Shaw
The substantial happiness, which enlarges and civilizes the mind, may be compared to the pleasure experienced in roving through nature at large, inhaling the sweet gale natural to the clime; while the reveries of a feverish imagination continually sport themselves in gardens full of aromatic shrubs, which cloy while they delight, and weaken the sense of pleasure they gratify.
"Maria The Wrongs of Woman"
Mary Wollstonecraft

Famous quotes with Civilizes

  • Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
    William Cowper
  • The imagination, which is the source of poetry, has in every country been the beginning as well as the ornament of civilization. It civilizes because it refines.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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