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8 letters · 22 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
verb raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
originBorrowed from French civiliser, corresponding to civil + -ize.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0