Crossword-Solution: CIVILIZE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Civilize | v. t. | To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. |
| Civilize | v. t. | To admit as suitable to a civilized state. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “CIVILIZE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| School in culture | 1 answer |
| BARBARISM, bring out of | 2 answers |
| INSTRUCT in the arts of life | 2 answers |
| humanise | 41 answers |
| Winnow | 47 answers |
| distil | 48 answers |
| Domesticate | 50 answers |
| chasten | 52 answers |
| sift | 53 answers |
| Reclaim | 60 answers |
| Refine | 64 answers |
| tame | 66 answers |
| Subdue | 67 answers |
| Improve | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CIVILIZE (5)
Patriots, in their turn, believed that they were being called upon to assume the "white man's burden" and to civilize and democratize the world.
But you do not now deserve them, for you long since ceased to civilize any thing whatever...."] [Footnote 64: "Treatise on Prescription."] [Footnote 65: "Origin of French Law."] [Footnote 66: To honor one's parents, to be grateful to one's benefactors, to neither kill nor steal,--truths of inward sensation.
During the Russo-Japan War was it not the yellow race that displayed the superior intelligence? I am sometimes almost tempted to say that Asia will have to civilize the West over again.
Some years ago the government, through its agents, began to civilize and Christianize these Indians and established a school at Keam's Canon, nine miles east of the first mesa, for that purpose.
CALAMITY said (with folly), “Hum! nebber want him again— Him civilize all of us, golly! CALAMITY suck him brain!” The people, however, were pained when They saw him aboard his ship, But none of them wept for their FREDDY, except HUM PICKETY WIMPLE TIP.
Quotes with CIVILIZE (3)
The story was so thoroughly believed that a Springfield, Massachusetts, missionary society resolved to send missionaries to the moon to convert and civilize the bat-men, apparently unaware that bat-men have lost all faith since they saw their parents gunned down in that alleyway.
Many criminologists believe that the source of the state’s pacifying effect isn’t just its brute coercive power but the trust it commands among the populace. After all, no state can post an informant in every pub and farmhouse to monitor breaches of the law, and those that try are totalitarian dictatorships that rule by fear, not civilized societies where people coexist through self-control and empathy. A Leviathan can civilize a society only when the citizens feel that its l…
If true Christianity consists in carrying out in our daily lives the teachings of Christ, who will say that we are commanded to civilize with dynamite and proselyte with the sword? ... Imperialism finds no warrant in the Bible. The command 'Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature' has no Gatling gun attachment.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2007).