Verb

• S: (v) educate (educate%2:41:01::), school (school%2:41:02::), train (train%2:41:01::), cultivate (cultivate%2:41:00::), civilize (civilize%2:41:00::), civilise (civilise%2:41:00::) (teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment) "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
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• S: (v) sophisticate (sophisticate%2:41:00::) (make less natural or innocent) "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
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• S: (v) polish (polish%2:30:01::), refine (refine%2:30:01::), fine-tune (fine-tune%2:30:01::), down (down%2:30:00::) (improve or perfect by pruning or polishing) "refine one's style of writing"
• S: (v) better (better%2:30:01::), improve (improve%2:30:01::), amend (amend%2:30:00::), ameliorate (ameliorate%2:30:01::), meliorate (meliorate%2:30:01::) (to make better) "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
• S: (v) change (change%2:30:01::), alter (alter%2:30:01::), modify (modify%2:30:10::) (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation) "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
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• S: (v) civilize (civilize%2:30:01::), civilise (civilise%2:30:01::) (raise from a barbaric to a civilized state) "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"
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• Somebody ----s somebody
• Something ----s somebody