educate#1 (v)
school#2 (v)
train#1 (v)
cultivate (v)
civilize (v)
civilise (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 41
def teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
examples Cultivate your musical taste
Train your tastebuds
She is well schooled in poetry
Frame - 8 Somebody ----s something
Frame - 9 Somebody ----s somebody
Outgoing links
Hypernym polish, refine, fine-tune, down
Derivationally related form civilise → civilisation
Derivationally related form civilize → civilization
Derivationally related form cultivate → cultivation
Derivationally related form educate → education
Hyponym sophisticate
Incoming links
Derivationally related form civilisation → civilise
Derivationally related form civilization → civilize
Derivationally related form education → educate
Derivationally related form cultivation → cultivate
Hyponym polish, refine, fine-tune, down
Hypernym sophisticate

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