Usually means: Make or become gentle, refined.
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  1. gentilize: Wordnik
  2. gentilize: Wiktionary
  3. Gentilize: Dictionary.com
  4. Gentilize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. gentilize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Gentilize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. gentilize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. gentilize: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Gentilize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gentilize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To render (something) gentile or gentlemanly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To live like a gentile or heathen.

Similar:
ungentlemanize, gentle, decivilize, peasantize, Polish, enmilden, refine, plebify, nobilify, unpolish, more...

Opposite:
degentilize, ungentle

Types:
make civilized, make polite, make cultured, make genteel, make refined, more...

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Similar:
ungentlemanize, gentle, decivilize, peasantize, Polish, enmilden, refine, plebify, nobilify, unpolish, more...

Opposite:
degentilize, ungentle

Types:
make civilized, make polite, make cultured, make genteel, make refined, more...



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