Civilize is valid Scrabble Word

Is civilize a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
22 points in Scrabble
25 points in WWF

Definitions for CIVILIZE in dictionary:

VERB:

to instruct in refinements, also CIVILISE
bring (a place or people) to a stage of social development considered to be more advanced
polite and good-mannered
refine or educate (a person)
To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.
To admit as suitable to a civilized state.
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
raise from a barbaric to a civilized state

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to bring out of savagery

Words related to CIVILIZE

civilise13 civilisers15 civilising16 civilized24 civilizer23 civilizers24 civilizes23 civilizing25

Words that contain CIVILIZE

civilized24 civilizer23 civilizes23 civilizers24 decivilize25 decivilized27 decivilizes26 uncivilized26 subcivilized29 overcivilized31 semicivilized30 uncivilizedly31 hypercivilized37 supercivilized31 ultracivilized29 uncivilizedness30

How to use CIVILIZE in a sentence

He did not aim at territorial enlargement so much as at facilities to enrich and civilize his empire.
The snake dance is another evidence of the comparative failure of civilization to civilize.
His object was to civilize the East and to do away with human sacrifice.
It was established as a colony in 1787, for the express purpose of laboring to civilize the Africans.
How Peter Stuyvesant labored to civilize the community.
The humanity of the document is perfectly of a piece with that of the system which would civilize mankind by making merchandize of them.
The Captain had been sent to civilize the Indians, and was not long in taking the woman under his protection.
We can never civilize the body while we leave the heart savage.
We have, it is true, a cumbrous system of machinery which is supposed to educate and civilize the Indian, called the Indian Bureau.
It is now two hundred years since attempts have been made to civilize the North American savage.

The work of conquest was followed by efforts to civilize the free-spirited barbarians, which, had they been conducted wisely, might have led to success.
What methods did he take to civilize the conquered countries? 19.
Forgotten was the fact that he had been an intolerable nuisance to Buffalo Bill and others who had undertaken to educate and civilize him.
What, I ask, can you do with such people but either crush or civilize them? The very stones cry out against them.
He felt that, in the book which he was translating, there was a deep human as well as heavenly wisdom, which would of itself suffice to civilize and refine the savage tribes.
Eliot had begun to civilize was scattered, and probably never was restored to a flourishing condition.
In his haste to civilize himself, however, he has failed to apply the principles that are essential to self-preservation.
Osiris travelled to civilize the countries which he passed through, and communicate to them his valuable discoveries.
They are not worth the trouble necessary to civilize them.
But it is in vain to attempt to civilize savage nations through the medium of book instruction alone.
There he laboured to civilize his countrymen, planted and harvested wheat, and kept in touch with Marsden across the Tasman Sea.
He felt that, in the book which he was translating, there was a deep human, as well as heavenly wisdom, which would of itself suffice to civilize and refine the savage tribes.
Eliot had begun to civilize, was scattered, and probably never was restored to a flourishing condition.
It is as difficult to civilize the mind of a true Mohammedan, as it is to wash the skin of a negro white.
Industry, enterprize, and mining, will have their full scope, proportionably as they civilize.

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